Hi List, by some reason I got not the original mail.
I have a problem to follow the subr. Fastest man passes - I think you talk
about William J "Pete" Knight from the X15 flight - how I have to understood
this - did he die???
Can someone send me the originial mail????
Thanks in advance
See ya
Pork Pie
"John Szalay" <john.szalay@att.net> schrieb:
> At 02:40 PM 5/11/04 -0700, you wrote:
>
> >How fast does the space shuttle go??
> >
> >Rick
>
> 24,100 feet per second or about 16,430 miles per hour
>
> But IIRC: the shuttle is a Spacecraft, and classified as a lifting body.
> not a fixed wing aircraft.
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