[sci.space.shuttle] Re : Re : Re: Re : whither the water?

nam2254@dsacg2.dsac.dla.mil (Tom Ohmer) (01/10/91)

From article <6801@crash.cts.com>, by gandalf@pro-canaveral.cts.com (Ken Hollis):
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< By the way, on another subject, even if there was fuel in the payload bay, the
< nose landing gear cannot be retracted fully with hydraulics.

I'm having a difficult time imagining a scenario in which the NLG would be
retracted, other than just prior to mating with the ET/SRB stack.  I must
have missed something with regard to fuel in the payload bay.

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