<I guess we'll have to see what information is available on the net about
<that January 1986 event. I do seem to recall that the flight was about 2
<minutes 10+ seconds underway when the ship hit the fan, so to speak. The
<entire trip into orbit only required about 8.5 minutes, so they were a fai
<piece of the way along.
It was exactly at T+73 seconds and Christa's mother is my next door neighbor
then and now. It was post max-Q transistion at main engine power up. Every
time I see a launch I get a knot at that time. FYI the speed attained at
that point is some 3600mph far from orbital velocity.
FYI: TLC had a special on space flight just that last week and that footage
was part of it. It's a reminder that I didn't need.
Allison
Received on Wed Feb 17 1999 - 21:09:04 GMT