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Subject: Re: Shuttle computer reprogramming
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Date: 10 Oct 88 20:34:12 GMT
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In article <1988Oct9.222636.26406@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
^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...

Just do something like this:



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			--R for Rabbit


(Oh yeah, :-), in case you didn't figure it out.