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From: thomas@mvac23.UUCP (Thomas Lapp)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Easter Island
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Date: 1 Aug 90 01:04:48 GMT
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I couldn't help myself here...

> 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.

But was a panel formed to investigate the accidental dropping?! :-)

                         - tom

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