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From: marc@pinet.aip.org (Marc Wiener)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Easter Island
Message-ID: <1990Aug1.132127.7689@pinet.aip.org>
Date: 1 Aug 90 13:21:27 GMT
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In article <81.26B66FFD@palace.fidonet.org> Scott.Johnson@p0.f7.n391.z8.fidonet.org (Scott Johnson) writes:
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>    There is also a very good book called "Shuttle Down" by an author whose
>name escapes me. It is about a shuttle that has to emergency land on Easter
>Island and what happens when they try to get it out.
>
>
I believe the author was Tom Easton, but it might have been published under
the pen-name Lee Corey. NASA did not have a landing strip at Easter Island
until after the book was published. They claim it is merelly a coincidence.
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