Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: What if...
Message-ID: <1989Mar23.220222.28553@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <18730@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <1989Mar21.183948.1174@utzoo.uucp> <5042@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 89 22:02:22 GMT

In article <5042@cbnews.ATT.COM> nak@cbnews.ATT.COM (Neil A. Kirby) writes:
>    What you *might* see is a Soyouz [sp] launch...

On most shuttle missions this couldn't be done, because the orbits the
shuttle uses are not ones the Soviets can reach easily.  The maximum-
payload orbit for the shuttle never passes over the Soviet Union at all,
so they can't launch into it without a horrendously fuel-expensive dogleg
maneuver.  It might be possible for the occasional high-inclination
missions, like the last Atlantis mission.  "While you're rescuing the
crew, comrade, get us a few dozen pictures of the military satellite they
deployed..."
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