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To: RightWhale

I believe that MCC was sure that the land bag was deployed and they kept the retro-pack on through reentry. Made for a longer comm blackout


138 posted on 08/07/2005 7:13:23 PM PDT by markman46
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To: markman46

That's right. They had an indicator that the heatshield had popped. Later they decided it hadn't. Glenn said that the retro pack made quite a display as it burned away.


157 posted on 08/07/2005 7:56:27 PM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and open the Land Office)
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