Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Shuttle computer reprogramming
Message-ID: <1988Oct9.222636.26406@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <6689@nsc.nsc.com> <1543@hp-sdd.HP.COM> <5485@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> <213@obie.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 88 22:26:36 GMT

In article <213@obie.UUCP> wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes) writes:
>... I know for a fact that
>you can ship a booster roughly the size of an SRB from Vandenberg AFB to
>Hill AFB Utah on a rail car, we just got ours Friday that way.  I think
>the shuttle SRBs are longer than the Peacekeeper booster, but that isn't
>a problem - the rails between here and the coast are pretty straight
>these days.

MUCH longer, and that is precisely the probelm.  "Pretty straight" is not
good enough for something that would probably span four railroad cars
(I don't have precise numbers on hand).  Also, the destination of interest
is the Cape, not Vandenberg...
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