From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxi!mhuxj!mhuxv!burl!sb1!ll1!ihldt!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!emrath 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.