Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!skipper!shafer From: shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Shuttle computers break down during glide tests Message-ID: Date: 1 May 91 20:32:30 GMT References: <1593@philtis.cft.philips.nl> <1991Apr26.111139.1@vf.jsc.nasa.gov> <1991Apr30.171707.27685@isc.rit.edu> Sender: shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov Distribution: sci.space.sghhuttle Organization: NASA Dryden, Edwards AFB, CA Lines: 19 In-reply-to: isg7243@ritvax.isc.rit.edu's message of 30 Apr 91 17:16:07 GMT In article <1991Apr30.171707.27685@isc.rit.edu> isg7243@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (GEERTS, IS) writes: I thought I read in R. Feynmans' book thatthe only thing the pilot did during landing was press the button to lower the landing gear, and that only to give the idea that humans were really in charge. Anyone know for sure? Either you remember wrong or Feynman is in error. The Shuttle is flown by the pilot from about Mach 2 downward. He definitely flies it through the HAC, onto final, flares. and lands. The complete reentry was hand flown for STS-2 through 5, too. There is an autoland but nobody uses it. MSBLS, etc. The pilots really like to fly it themselves. -- Mary Shafer shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov ames!skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov!shafer NASA Ames Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA Of course I don't speak for NASA "Turn to kill, not to engage." CDR Willie Driscoll