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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: "Walking"
Message-ID: <1203@atari.UUCP>
Date: 28 Oct 88 00:37:13 GMT
References: <665@sas.UUCP>
Reply-To: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Organization: Atari (US) Corporation, Sunnyvale, California
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Somebody I know who had his master's thesis go up on the Shuttle said that
it goes like this:

	At T-5, the main engines start, and their thrust rocks the whole
assembly (orbiter + ET + SRBs) forward some distance.  As the thrust
settles down, the orbiter rocks backward again, and as it passes through
the vertical (at T=0), the SRBs ignite and off you go. 

Is this what you mean?

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