alb@alice.UUCP (Adam L. Buchsbaum) (05/31/85)
NASA announced today that, due to brake problems on all 17 shuttle flights, it is abandoning differential braking for steering the shuttle upon landing. Instead, all four shuttles will be modified, by October, to include a new nosewheel steering system.
fisher@dvinci.DEC (06/04/85)
<> > NASA announced...that it is abandoning differential braking and will > install a new nosewheel steering system on all shuttles by October Can anyone comment on the implications of this decision? There must be some disadvantage, or it would have been done in the first place. Weight? Anything else? Also, where did the brakes go awry? Was the initial analysis wrong (regarding braking pressure required, etc) or do the brakes not meet the specs? Burns UUCP: ... {decvax|allegra|ucbvax}!decwrl!rhea!dvinci!fisher ARPA: fisher%dvinci.dec@decwrl.ARPA