Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Drag chutes for Shuttle braking
Message-ID: <1990Apr6.155114.7023@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <IA80024.90092185753@MAINE.BITNET> <1990Apr3.170358.121@utzoo.uucp> <261a51ce.358b@petunia.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 90 15:51:14 GMT

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
