From: LFLekx@NOSPAM.rogers.com.retro.com   
      
   On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 23:28:45 GMT, henry@spsystems.net (Henry Spencer)   
   wrote:   
      
   >The stage numbering for parallel-burn systems is a bit confused, but by   
   >the most realistic convention, the SSMEs are the shuttle's second stage,   
   >the SRBs being the first.   
      
      You don't think it's more like the Atlas stage-and-a-half   
   system...?  :-)   
      
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