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From: vail@tegra.UUCP (Johnathan Vail)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: QUESTION: Shuttle round trips to the moon?
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Date: 13 Jan 89 19:48:31 GMT
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In-reply-to: petej@phred.UUCP's message of 12 Jan 89 14:53:29 GMT


>tires that are inflated to land on Earth's surface. The Shuttle only has the
>ability to go about 400 miles out into an Earth orbit.

I thought it barely made it to about 100 miles.  Can it really get an
apogee of 400 miles?

"Gravity pulls the trousers down
         Morality pulls the trousers up" -- Bedful of Metaphysicians
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