Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!albion.utah.edu!smcgee From: smcgee%albion.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Scott Mcgee) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Easter Island Message-ID: <1990Jul30.143354.23136@hellgate.utah.edu> Date: 30 Jul 90 20:33:54 GMT References: Sender: smcgee%albion@cs.utah.edu (Scott McGee) Organization: University of Utah CS Dept Lines: 24 In article manning@arrester.caltech.edu (Evan Marshall Manning) writes: > >I was watching a Nova last night about Easter Island. They >mentioned that Easter Island is an emergency landing strip >for west-coast shuttle landings. > >Just curious, >Evan Just as a related point of interest, in David Brin's new novel (science fiction) called "Earth", the shuttle Atlantis must have used the Easter Island emergency landing strip and then been accidentally "dropped" onto the 747 carrier dammaging both irrepairibly. The shuttle was then stripped of much of the equipement that could be used on the other shuttles and then turned into a monument. I just thought someone might be interested! Scott Buttered bread always lands * Scott McGee butter side down! (Unless * email : smcgee%albion@cs.utah.edu it sticks to the ceiling!) * Would YOU mistake these opinions as anyone's but my own?