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   Henry Spencer to Keith F. Lynch   
   Re: Li heat sink   
   09 Apr 04 18:35:48   
   
   From: henry@spsystems.net   
      
   In article ,   
   Keith F. Lynch  wrote:   
   >> The basic answer is exactly what you see with the shuttle (which   
   >> has quite a bit of heat stored in its tiles at landing time):   
   >> one of the first things that happens after touchdown is that an   
   >> air-conditioning truck is hastily hooked up...   
   >   
   >How warm would it get if the air-conditioning truck is not available,   
   >e.g. after an unscheduled emergency landing at an unusual location?   
      
   My impression -- I have no specific data -- is that cabin and cargo bay   
   would both get unpleasantly hot, but not disastrously so.  Enough to   
   perhaps ruin biological specimens, not enough to damage equipment, is   
   my understanding.   
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