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40th anniversary of first US manned craft re-use.

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Subject 40th anniversary of first US manned craft re-use.
Date Wed, 17 Nov 2021 17:58:52 -0800
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Well, 5 days ago.   STS-2.  NasaSpaceFlight.com has a retrospective:

<URL:https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2021/11/sts-2-40th-anniversary/>

Turn-around was about 5 months, it seems, but another month was added 
for tile repairs after RCS hypergolics were spilled.  An abort spoiled 
the Nov 4 date, and the Nov 12 date was also in issue due to mux/demux 
failure.

Launch was 7 months after the STS-1 launch.  The flight lasted 2 days 
instead of the planned 5, due to a fuel cell failure.  This was also 
the first flight where SRB joint o-ring erosion was found.


(For JFM, there's a picture of /Columbia/ descending to Edwards.  The 
angle is chosen to give the most appropriate airspeed; I'm not sure 
what the sink rate for level flight would be if you started trying it 
at the speed and elevation pictured.)

/dps

-- 
"What do you think of my cart, Miss Morland? A neat one, is not it? 
Well hung: curricle-hung in fact. Come sit by me and we'll test the 
springs."
(Speculative fiction by H.Lacedaemonian.)

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40th anniversary of first US manned craft re-use. Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2021-11-17 17:58 -0800
  Re: 40th anniversary of first US manned craft re-use. JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2021-11-17 23:25 -0500
    Re: 40th anniversary of first US manned craft re-use. Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2021-11-22 15:29 -0800

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