henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (04/06/90)
In article <261a51ce.358b@petunia.CalPoly.EDU> mhuang@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU ( * * * Hunter * * * ) writes: >>>...possibility that NASA could install a drag chute... >>Already planned. Endeavour will have one, and the rest of the orbiters will >>get it as a retrofit eventually. > >What other improvements are planned for the Endeavour that will be retrofitted >to existing shuttles? ... A bunch of little things, the details of which I don't remember. Better nosewheel steering, I think, and the latest revision of the thermal protection materials. The drag chute was the only really new thing. -- Apollo @ 8yrs: one small step.| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology Space station @ 8yrs: .| uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu
petej@phred.UUCP (Pete Jarvis) (04/10/90)
In article <1990Apr3.170358.121@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: > >Already planned. Endeavour will have one, and the rest of the orbiters will >get it as a retrofit eventually. >-- I would like to know where they intend on putting this chute and the control system that operated it. I don't know of any spare space for the chute and control system which would have to be somewhere in or near the engine compartment. Peter Jarvis.........
henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (04/11/90)
In article <3032@phred.UUCP> petej@phred.UUCP (Pete Jarvis) writes: >I would like to know where they intend on putting this chute and the control >system that operated it. I don't know of any spare space... I think -- it's been a while -- that the intent was to add a small housing in the usual place, at the base of the tailfin. -- Apollo @ 8yrs: one small step.| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology Space station @ 8yrs: .| uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu
petej@phred.UUCP (Pete Jarvis) (04/12/90)
In article <1990Apr10.172445.4319@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: > >I think -- it's been a while -- that the intent was to add a small housing >in the usual place, at the base of the tailfin. >-- That's fine, but I've seen residual APU hot gases and flame near there after some landings. I think that's something they would have to deal with first. Peter Jarvis.........