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From: kenny@m.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Shuttle *Launch*
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Date: 5 Oct 88 16:10:00 GMT
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     If you want to be pedantic, `launch' terminates when the
spacecraft has cleared the tower and control switches from KSC to
Houston.  The remainder of the period until main engine cut-off is the
`boost phase.'