Re: CEV Test Flight
- From: "maxson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <maxson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:23:31 -0700 (PDT)
On Mar 23, 2:23 pm, bob haller safety advocate <hall...@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Mar 23, 2:15�pm, "max...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <max...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Finally, can anyone recall whether there was any slippage of the date
initially planned for the first test flight of a shuttle landing?
shuttles had all sorts of delays
Sure, but I don't recall any delays in the orbiter's landing tests. It
rolled out of the plant at Palmdale in September 1976, and in January
1977 it was taken to Dryden to begin a planned program of landing
tests. Not until after that did it go to Marshall for mating with the
ET and the SRBs, so that vibration testing could begin.
Am I wrong in my understanding that at this point, their is still no
real CEV available for landing tests? I think I read somewhere that
the VSE plan was for the landing test to be a peripheral part of the
first launch attempt from Pad B.
JTM
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