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From: greg@nmtvax.UUCP (Greg Titus)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: Challenger SRBs
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Date: Fri, 7-Feb-86 13:51:57 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb  7 13:51:57 1986
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> According to the Space Shuttle Operator's Manual (a source whose veracity
> I can't vouch for), the SRB nozzle's can gimbal six degrees.  Not an
> overwhelming amount of control, but they are adjustable.

I believe the situation is that indeed the SRB nozzles are moveable, but
that the control for that movement comes entirely from the shuttle itself.
Thus, once the launch assemblage is no longer intact, the SRBs are not
steerable.

greg
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