Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Soviet and American Shuttles
Message-ID: <1988Oct16.020004.29235@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1574@nunki.usc.edu> <3020@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <820@super.ORG> <7195@ihlpl.ATT.COM>
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 88 02:00:04 GMT

In article <7195@ihlpl.ATT.COM> knudsen@ihlpl.ATT.COM (Knudsen) writes:
>Reminds me -- I still wonder whether, if our Shuttle somehow
>got dangerously below its landing glide path, the pilots might
>fire the hypergolic OMS engines in order to make it to the runway.

They're not powerful enough to do any good.
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