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From: art@buengc.BU.EDU (A. R. Thompson)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: What happened to KSC Shuttle Landings
Message-ID: <4468@buengc.BU.EDU>
Date: 7 Oct 89 22:47:05 GMT
References: <3410@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG> <1173@ispi.UUCP>
Reply-To: art@buengc.bu.edu (A. R. Thompson)
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In article <1173@ispi.UUCP> jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) writes:
>al@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG (Al Viall) writes:
>
>>My question to the board is this. Wasn't there alot of talk many years
>>ago, of using the landing strip at KSC for all shuttle landings, and leaving
>>Edwards and White Sands as the alternates?
>>Are they still planning this, or has it been scrapped?
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>After the Challenger they decided that there were too many risks involved to
>land at KSC (no alternate runway, swamp all around, etc)

Did any of the shuttle flights ever actually land at KSC?