dave@viper.Lynx.MN.Org (David Messer) (11/09/90)
In article <1759@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> francis@cs.adelaide.edu.au writes: > >This must have occured to someone before but... > >If the shuttle has to abort its launch and land >on the other side of the Atlantic, does it qualify for >the Trans-Atlantic speed record? > >I suspect that a short venture into space is what would disqualify >such a flight. Most records don't allow parts of the vehicle to be jettisoned during the flight. The shuttle tosses-away quite a bit of stuff. I don't know if entering space would disqualify the record, but they certainly would have a separate category for airborne flight, and ballistic flight. -- How can you tell if Bush is lying? | David Messer dave@Lynx.MN.Org -or- Watch his lips... | Lynx Data Systems ...!bungia!viper!dave