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From: karn@thumper.bellcore.com (Phil R. Karn)
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: advance space news from June 6 AW&ST -- Pegasus!
Summary: response to Von Braun
Message-ID: <1176@thumper.bellcore.com>
Date: 21 Jun 88 21:01:41 GMT
References: <1988Jun17.053132.5314@utzoo.uucp>, <3361@phri.UUCP> <1988Jun20.055512.21817@utzoo.uucp>
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> Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft. --Von Braun

Last week's successful Ariane-4 launch put AMSAT Phase 3-C and two other
satellites into the following orbit:

perigee 221 km (nominal: 220 km)
apogee 36,359 km (nominal: 36,294 km)
inclination 10.01 deg (nominal: 10 deg)

I'd like to see some fighter jock/astronaut do as well by flying a
launch manually.  Perhaps you should limit the scope of this statement
somewhat.

Von Braun, of all people, should have known better. But he was not
exactly known as one who always placed high ethical standards above
doing and saying whatever was required to get funding from whomever he
happened to be working for at the time.

Phil