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From: jay@ncspm.ncsu.edu (Jay C. Smith)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Shuttles, east and west.
Keywords: Space Shuttle, Discovery, Soviet Shuttle
Message-ID: <1313@ncspm.ncsu.edu>
Date: 4 Oct 88 15:32:02 GMT
References: <2127@sics.se> <651@cmx.npac.syr.edu>
Reply-To: jay@ncspm.ncsu.EDU (Jay C. Smith)
Organization: Crop Science Dept., North Carolina State University
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In article <651@cmx.npac.syr.edu> anand@cmx.npac.syr.edu (Rangachari Anand) 
writes:
>...it has 4 turbojet engines for use in the atmosphere while 
>landing. This makes the landing much easier and is not a one-chance-only
>affair.

I thought the four engines were used only during testing that involved powered
take-offs from a runway, and that only two engines were being kept for the
operational model (since they would only be used for landing).  Is this right?

-- 
"I don't suppose you have any idea what the damn thing is, huh?"
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