To: rintense
Landing gear are not deployed until the craft is just a hundred feet in altitude. To put them out any earlier will cause so much loss of speed they would not make the runway...remember, it's a 100 ton BRICK...no engines at all...
232 posted on
02/01/2003 9:23:27 AM PST by
GRRRRR
(God Bless America)
To: GRRRRR
Jay Barbree on NBC just said there are 200,000 parts to a shuttle...imgaine that.......whoa!
243 posted on
02/01/2003 9:25:02 AM PST by
Dog
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