Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!wmartin From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: Re: re:my car is slower than yours Message-ID: <7066@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Mon, 7-Jan-85 11:39:57 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.7066 Posted: Mon Jan 7 11:39:57 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 9-Jan-85 02:34:36 EST References: <885@ihuxx.UUCP> <55200126@trsvax.UUCP> Organization: USAMC ALMSA Lines: 11 This last weekend's edition of the PBS program "Newton's Apple" had a special on the shuttle and the astronaut training program. They mentioned the "transporter" which moves the completely-assembled spacecraft & boosters from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the launch pad had a "mileage" rating of 35 feet per gallon of fuel (diesel, I believe). (I believe that this is the heaviest moving vehicle on earth, by the way.) Worse than a Caddy with a hole in the tank... Will