From: mark@unicorn.com
Date: Fri May 07 1999 - 10:56:50 MDT
Dwayne wrote:
>Also, the turtle the move the space shuttle on moves vewwy vewwy slowly,
Top loaded speed 3mph, AFAIR. I think NASA keep it down to 1mph most of
the time just because it's a little safer and they're in no rush to get
anywhere.
>along a very flat surface.
Actually it has to climb quite a steep ramp at the launch pad. Or do you
mean flat as in lack of lumps and bumps rather than gradient? It certainly
wouldn't like to roll over any rocks along the way, but the main problem
is that the shuttle would topple over, not that it couldn't do so; if it
was carrying something with a much lower center of gravity it could
probably take it over quite rough ground with those huge tracks and all
that power.
Mark
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