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From: reddy@uts.amdahl.com (T.S. Reddy)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: shuttle landing anomaly
Message-ID: <3cm0025B4cPV01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 18 Aug 89 18:25:39 GMT
References: <4500@portia.Stanford.EDU> <57706@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
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In article <57706@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, mcmillan@adena.cis.ohio-state.edu (Harold McMillan) writes:
> In article <4500@portia.Stanford.EDU> rick@hanauma (Richard Ottolini) writes:
> >CBS news reported during the landing the nose appeared high.
> 
> On the video of the landing I saw on the news that night, I did not notice
> if the nose was high, but I thought that the nose wheel hit unusually hard.
> Maybe they had a hard time getting the nose down and over-corrected.
> Anybody else notice anything?
> -=-
> Hal McMillan                          |    
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     I saw the same thing. The suspension (or whatever else it is called) 
came into play quite a bit, with the nose dipping on impact and levelling
out.
-- 
T.S.Reddy

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