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From: sw@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (Stuart Warmink)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: What if...
Summary: transatlantic abort
Message-ID: <363@cbnewsl.ATT.COM>
Date: 31 Mar 89 16:39:25 GMT
References: <18730@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <29106@sri-unix.SRI.COM> <379@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Organization: Interface Systems at AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <379@hydra.gatech.EDU>, dsm@prism.gatech.EDU (Daniel McGurl) writes:
> [.......]  Hopefully, however, massive tile damage might be caught in time to
> do a once around abort.

That wouldn't help, re-entry would still be at (nearly) orbital velocity.
I think you mean "transatlantic abort". I wonder if that contingency
(i.e detection of critical tile loss) has been planned for during launch?
I hope it will never come to that...
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