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From: beres@cadnetix.COM
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: "Houston, request vector to BFS"...huh!
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Date: 5 Oct 88 15:01:29 GMT
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While watching the Shuttle land Monday, I heard the above comment.
I was watching on ABC where I couldn't hear much comm traffic, due to 
Peter and his guest a**hole chattering away non-stop.  But I did hear the
above.  So what does this mean:

	1.  I heard it as, "please allow Discovery to use its Backup Flight
	    Software, because its main 4 computers don't appear to agree.".
	    This, of course, caused huge consternation for me.
	2.  Idle and wrong speculation, fool!
	3.  Hauck did (now according to NBC) fly Discovery in manually [as
	    manually as the thing can get, anyway].
	4.  EE Times, in their Shuttle series, listed a great number of near
	    catastrophes in the program - most of which I'd never heard 
	    about;  if the BFS was "vectored to", and assumption (1) is
	    true, will NASA come clean?

I gotta believe (2).  Either I heard it wrong or it means something else.
If I was right you'd think we'd have heard something by now.


			Tim
..words to memorize  words hypnotize  words make my mouth exercise  words all
fail the magic prize... -- VF
Tim Beres   Cadnetix, 5775 Flatirons Pkwy, Boulder, CO 80301  
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