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From: birenboi@koh2.usc.edu (Aaron Birenboim)
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Subject: Re: Shuttle landing speed
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Date: 9 Oct 88 01:54:24 GMT
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In article <219@tekn01.chalmers.se> d88_pata@tekn01.chalmers.se (PATRIK PETTERSSON) writes:
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>  ... the shuttle's speed when it came in for landing was 2
>Mach. Is this really so?

I was watching the landing over NASA select at USC.  They had constant
reports of total velocity and vertical velocity vectors in ft/sec.
I was converting them to MPH, and I think the last total velocity
vector was about 400 MPH (666 Km/H).



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