Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Shuttle question
Message-ID: <1990Nov27.174011.25628@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <3795@cuisun.unige.ch> <40040@ut-emx.uucp> <SHAFER.90Nov26080134@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov> <4956@bwdls58.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 90 17:40:11 GMT

In article <4956@bwdls58.UUCP> hwt@bwdlh490.BNR.CA (Henry Troup) writes:
>...  I understand that Harry Stine's
>(LEe Corey) novel _Shuttle_Down_ actually caused NASA to fund some 
>improvement to the runways at Rapa Nua/Isla du Pasqua/Easter Island ?   

More precisely, concerns about abort sites for polar launches -- partly
the result of Stine's novel exposing an embarrassing lack of preparations --
prompted some improvements both there and at another island.
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