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From:   Bill Lancaster
Sent:   Friday, February 20, 1998 6:05 PM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: This day....

Bruce wrote:
>
>This is incorrect. Friendship 7, which carried Glenn on his first flight,
>was launched into an elliptical orbit with an apogee of 156 statute
>miles. STS-95 will be launched into a circular orbit at 345 statute
>miles. He's getting 189 miles farther into space than he got last time.
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>-- Bruce
>

This is great!  We rarely get the chance to measure progress so precisely
over such a span of years.  Can it then be said that our space program as
advanced an average of 5.25 miles per year for manned space flight???

Bill Lancaster

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Bill,

Throw in a few trips to the moon for that average.

jt