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From: belle@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Steve Belle)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: How does the tailcone get around?
Summary: Trucked
Keywords: Tailcone
Message-ID: <426@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov>
Date: 9 Feb 90 23:53:58 GMT
References: <1195@ac.dal.ca> <2976@phred.UUCP>
Organization: NASA Ames-Dryden FRF, Edwards, CA
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In article <1195@ac.dal.ca> arppeter@ac.dal.ca writes:

 >Here's a logistical question I thought of, and don't know the answer to.
 >How does the protective tailcone get to Edwards each time?
 >I would think it is too large to fit on a truck or ride alone atop the 747.
 >Peter J. Russell
 
After STS-26 landed back in 1988, I toured the shuttle area with a group
of other employees.  That question was asked and the answer was by truck.


Steve Belle
belle@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov
"not a civil servant"