Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site ssc-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!adolph From: adolph@ssc-vax.UUCP (Mark Adolph) Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: Orphaned Response - Automated Shuutle Landing Message-ID: <282@ssc-vax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 18-Dec-84 20:30:08 EST Article-I.D.: ssc-vax.282 Posted: Tue Dec 18 20:30:08 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 20-Dec-84 02:39:54 EST References: <-2700@tektools.UUCP> <73300001@hpfclq.UUCP> Organization: Boeing Aerospace Co., Seattle, WA Lines: 21 *** YOUR MESSAGE *** > I 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. John Young landed STS-1 manually. I believe the quotation from Robert Crippen was that he "really greased it in." If I recall, he (Young) commented on the fact that the orbiter had more lift near the ground than they anticipated. But it is true that the computers can land the shuttle. -- Mark A. ...uw-beaver!ssc-vax!adolph "Computers are like preppies: they just boil around in their own way and you have to do things their way or they blow you off." "Everything that was different was a different thing..."