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Newsgroups: net.columbia
Title: Re: Shuttle's Roll - (nf)
Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.1333
Posted: Fri Jan 14 02:25:34 1983
Received: Sat Jan 15 07:53:27 1983

#R:houxq:-25000:uiucdcs:8500005:000:263
uiucdcs!emrath    Jan 14 01:54:00 1983

I believe it is in order to point it in the right direction.
Without the roll it would head NE along the coast, right over
heavily populated regions. Why it is oriented on the pad this
way I don't know. If I'm way off base on this one, sorry - please
correct me.