DIFFERENT MOTORS FAILED
Regarding your story "Blame It on Nixon" (AW&ST Mar. 19/26, p. 82), the two Hughes HS376 communications satellites were not "stranded in low orbits by apogee kick motor failures" but by McDonnell-Douglas third-stage PAM motor (nozzle) failures that resulted in failure to achieve transfer orbit. The...
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