On Sun, 08 Jul 2018 05:56:01 -0700, Stormin' Norman
<norman@schwarzkopf.in.memorium> wrote:
>On Sun, 08 Jul 2018 01:11:25 -0700, "Bob (not my real pseudonym)"
><invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
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>>On 7 Jul 2018 12:19:45 -0700, Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com>
>>wrote:
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>>>In article <knr1kdh3acprolne1elj8es65h68rhg13u@4ax.com>, Stormin' Norman says...
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>>>>At Naval Air Facility El Centro in Southern California, SpaceX
>>>>safe landing in the unlikely event of a low altitude abort.
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>>>Looks like a yellow chute at first...then two reds...then four large red/whites.
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>>>...what happened to the good ole days when ya yelled 'geronimo' while pulling
>>>the 'D' ring?
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>>Hope that unlikely low altitude abort is high enough to let that
>>whiole sequence - er, unfold...
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>The Dragon has integral abort / landing rockets (as opposed to the
>escape tower for Mercury, Gemini and Apollo)
Correcting myself, Gemini used ejection seats, not an escape tower.
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