Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!sun-barr!newstop!sun!concertina!fiddler From: fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: When does the official name change? Message-ID: <128305@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 22 Nov 89 21:22:47 GMT References: <7036@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <5315@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Lines: 21 In article <5315@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>, bruno@sdcc10.ucsd.edu (Bruce W. Mohler) writes: > In article <1989Nov21.051136.18065@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: > > ...NASA originally wanted to land most > > every shuttle [at KSC], to save transportation problems... > > ...The fact is, KSC is a lousy place to land a shuttle. Most > [...*why* it's a lousy place...] > Why don't they launch from Edwards as well then? For non-polar orbits, it helps to launch to the east (getting a free couple hundred miles/hr toward orbit velocity needed). East of KSC is lots of water. East of EAFB is lots of land, contaminated (as it were :} ) with people. ------------ "...Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded..." Plato, _Phaedrus_ 275d