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From: ccoprmd@prism.gatech.EDU (Matthew DeLuca)
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: space news from March 27 AW&ST
Message-ID: <655@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 12 May 89 13:56:06 GMT
References: <1989May8.033250.18780@utzoo.uucp> <15988@bellcore.bellcore.com> <6390@cbnews.ATT.COM> <52000@philabs.Philips.Com> <1989May11.202243.1111@utzoo.uucp>
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In article <1989May11.202243.1111@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>No damage that I know of.  It's overweight and well below normal orbiter
>specs, but that's another story.  If you did a thorough refit on it, you
>could theoretically fly it into space, although payload would be low due
>to the overweight structure.

The very fact that it *is* overweight would be a problem in new landing
tests, since landing weight is very important when it comes to landing gear
and braking.  My guess is that, yes, we could refit it and use it for landing
tests, but the data would not be fully indicative of the performance of the
flight shuttle.

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