Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notesfiles Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!tektronix!hplabs!hp-pcd!hpfclq!al From: al@hpfclq.UUCP (al) Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: Orphaned Response Message-ID: <73300001@hpfclq.UUCP> Date: Sat, 15-Dec-84 18:56:00 EST Article-I.D.: hpfclq.73300001 Posted: Sat Dec 15 18:56:00 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 16-Dec-84 06:36:44 EST References: <-2700@tektools.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett-Packard - Fort Collins, CO Lines: 14 Nf-ID: #R:tektools:-2700:hpfclq:73300001:37777777600:527 Nf-From: hpfclq!al Dec 10 15:56:00 1984I believe the answer is "yes". I know that the on-board flight computers land the vehicle but I don't remember if they also inject the Shuttle into the re-entry path. I also think that it wasn't until the sixth misssion that a pilot actually landed the craft manually. Knowing NASA, it seems to me that they probably could land the Shuttle without human help for safety reasons if nothing else. al stone hpfcla!al