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From: thomas@mvac23.UUCP (Thomas Lapp)
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Subject: Re: When does the official name change?
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Date: 29 Nov 89 00:55:17 GMT
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> In article <5315@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> bruno@sdcc10.ucsd.edu (Bruce W. Mohler) writes:
> > > ... Edwards is the
> > > primary landing site for the foreseeable future.
> >
> >Why don't they launch from Edwards as well then?
> 
> Life would be simpler if they could.  Apart from historical complications
> (all the heavy launch facilities are at KSC), the problem is that the range-
> safety people want to see several hundred kilometers, at least, of ocean or
> uninhabited land downrange of a launch site.  

Just to bring the point home, if Challenger had been launched from Edwards,
where would the pieces have hit the earth?

I imagine it would have been more of a mess than what happened when
the Pan Am 747 rained down upon Lockerbie, Scottland (No, I'm not trying
to be funny here -- I lost a high-school classmate in that one).

> A bit of tolerance is worth a  |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
> megabyte of flaming.           | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu
                         - tom
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