Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site riccb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!riccb!rjnoe From: rjnoe@riccb.UUCP (Roger J. Noe ) Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: Shuttle abort procedures question Message-ID: <467@riccb.UUCP> Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 09:10:56 EDT Article-I.D.: riccb.467 Posted: Fri Aug 2 09:10:56 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 3-Aug-85 05:42:27 EDT References: <2865@mordor.UUCP> Organization: Starfleet Command Lines: 11 > From: (Richard Kenner) > > I have a question about the programming of the Shuttle abort procedures. > While listening to yesterday's ATO, I heard a "1 engine TAL" call a while > after the ATO started. That's "one-engine TAO" for Transatlantic Abort. Should they lose a second engine before that call, they'd get very wet. But I'd rather be in a shuttle orbiter landing on the ocean surface than in an airliner. -- Roger Noe