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From: jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu (Jeffrey W Percival)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: An idea
Keywords: Idea
Message-ID: <731@larry.sal.wisc.edu>
Date: 21 Sep 89 15:14:14 GMT
References: <1108@lakesys.UUCP>
Reply-To: jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu.UUCP (Jeffrey W Percival)
Organization: Space Astronomy Laboratory
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In article <1108@lakesys.UUCP> davek@lakesys.UUCP (Dave Kraft) writes:
>If a shuttle has been rolled out, why can't they roll it out onto a platform
>that goes down into the earrth to protect it? (kinda like a big elevator), and
>then people on the surface could put tarps, ect. over the hole, and wait for
>the storm to pass??

Better yet...  why not put wings on the launch pad, and fly it
to Peoria whenever it gets cloudy?  Tarps are soooo expensive.
-- 
Jeff Percival (jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu)