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At what point was nose wheel steering “added” to the Space Shuttle design?

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Clash Royale CLAN TAG #URR8PPP up vote 6 down vote favorite A comment below this answer to my question "Runway landing with a front skid instead of wheel - how does steering happen? (Dreamchaser)" says: In fact, the Space Shuttle didn't originally have nosewheel steering. It was added after brake damage incidents. If this is so, at what point in the Shuttle's development, testing, and extensive flight history did this happen? It seems like adding a complete, reliable nose wheel steering system to a mature design would be quite an undertaking. space-shuttle share | improve this question asked Aug 10 at 10:36 uhoh 27.4k 12 87 340 add a comment  |  up vote 6 down vote favorite A comment below this answer to my question "Runway landing with a front skid instead of wheel - how does steering happen? (Dreamchaser)" says: In fact, the Space Shuttle didn't originally have nosewheel steering. It was ad

Large bib entry (>20000 characters)

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Clash Royale CLAN TAG #URR8PPP up vote 12 down vote favorite 3 My bibliography contains a very big paper (3000+ authors). When trying to cite that paper, I get this error: Your field is more than 20000 characters---line 495 of file research.bib And the citation doesn't appear in the final document. Question: How do I fix this or bypass that limit? bibtex share | improve this question asked Aug 10 at 14:57 hdev 61 4 2 D= What paper is this? I'm curious now! – Phelype Oleinik Aug 10 at 14:59 2 I think that you would need to recompile BibTeX with a larger memory size or cut some author. Or maybe use biber and BibLaTeX instead... – Phelype Oleinik Aug 10 at 15:01 3 Two words: et al. :) – Alan Munn Aug 10 at 15:04 3 it's the one about gravitational waves produced by colliding neutron stars (iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aa91c9) :) – hdev Aug 10 at 15:05