Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: rockets with nozzles at the top
Message-ID: <1988Aug28.000754.16300@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1001@scicom.alphacdc.com> <44700006@pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk> <6204@ihlpl.ATT.COM> <10142@reed.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 88 00:07:54 GMT

In article <10142@reed.UUCP> douglas@reed.UUCP (P Douglas Reeder) writes:
> ... Why is it not possible to use the OMS thrusters
>to make a powered landing on the shuttle, if unpowered landings are so 
>undesirable?  Extra fuel would be required...

I *think* they simply aren't powerful enough to be useful in a one-gee
environment.  There may be other reasons; anybody know for sure?
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