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Back in the saddle again
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Central TX west of Houston
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Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile
A thought that the orbital design limit of the shuttle (about 690 miles) was due to the Van Allen radiation belts. The highest orbit for the shuttle, carrying full OMS fuel (and resulting reduced payload capacity) supposedly is just inside the lower boundary of the inner Van Allen belt.
I have a book somewhere called "The Space Shuttle Operator's Manual" (blue cover, here it is on Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/Space-Shuttle-Operators-Manual-Revised/dp/0345341813 ) which gets into a lot of this stuff. Great read and worth picking up if you get the chance - I got my copy back in 1981 or 1982 I think. |
You should see some of the books that show up in the "Half Price Books" store that's about a mile from NASA here in Houston. Some cool stuff.
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'08 Boxster RS60 Spyder #0099/1960
- never named a car before, but this is Charlotte.
'88 targa  SOLD 2004 - gone but not forgotten
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