Re: Armchair analysis of Delta performance shortfall

From: Kim Keller (kimekeller_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 17:02:06 GMT

"w9gb" <onw9mapsgb@no.ar.spam.rl.net> wrote in message
news:hXKAd.586273$wV.480123@attbi_s54...
> If this was a manned mission, then this would have been an abort scenario.

Probably not. NASA preference is for insertion into orbit, even if it is the
wrong orbit, rather than subject the crew to the hazards of a first-stage
abort.

-Kim-

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