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To: Uncle Fud

The liquid fuel engines on the Shuttle are throttleable to a degree. Upper stage engines on most large boosters can also be shut down and restarted.


45 posted on 08/02/2005 9:59:06 AM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and open the Land Office)
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To: RightWhale

I included the shuttle in my original comment. And I agree there have been plenty of restartable engines, that's not the same thing as "throttleable" in my lexicon.....


50 posted on 08/02/2005 10:01:33 AM PDT by Uncle Fud (Imagine the President calling fascism a "religion of peace" in 1942)
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