Computer Controlled Landing?

[Ron Rapp]

> What if, instead of using an intelligent stand alone
> computer, you used a
> computerized fly by wire flight system that could, in
> an emergency, be flown
> from the ground via computer link. You could use a
> preprogrammed re-entry
> program (due to the ionization radio blackout) for
> reentry and pick it up
> from there. I don't think it would not be hard to
> hook a shuttle simulator to
> a computer uplink and attach that to the shuttle's
> flight systems.

I don't know about the full fly-by-wire from the ground, but
as far as the preprogrammed re-entry program, I though such
a thing already existed... or maybe it was something that
was supposed to go into the Endevour...

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