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From: ssquyres@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Steven Squyres)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Easter Island
Summary: shuttle, antarctica
Message-ID: <10551@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 20 Jul 90 08:10:23 GMT
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Reply-To: ssquyres@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Steven Squyres)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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Several years ago, the then-skipper of the US naval facility at McMurdo
Station in Antarctica cooked up the idea of building an abort strip for
Vandenburg launches at a place called Marble Point, right across the sound 
from McMurdo. Not a very practical idea... though it would've been a nice 
place to land C-141's. I always kind of liked the idea of a shuttle 
swooping in with the Royal Society range looming in the background.