Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!skipper!shafer From: shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Shuttle question Message-ID: Date: 28 Nov 90 19:37:46 GMT References: <3795@cuisun.unige.ch> <40040@ut-emx.uucp> <37200@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <1990Nov26.032232.14814@athena.mit.edu> <1990Nov28.181601.13722@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> Sender: shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov Organization: NASA Dryden, Edwards, Cal. Lines: 21 In-reply-to: ddavey@cellar.uucp's message of 28 Nov 90 18:16:01 GMT In article <1990Nov28.181601.13722@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> ddavey@cellar.uucp (Doug Davey) writes: >In article shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) writes: >> >> KSC (Kennedy Space Center, Florida) has a 15,000' x 300' ft runway >> (same size as Edwards AFB) >Kind of restricts the size of your hangers & parking lots when your >whole Air Force Base is only 300 feet wide, doesn't it? :-) :-) :-) Yes, but it's really easy to keep it tidy. Well, to cover my lapse I'll inject an actual tidbit of fact. Edwards AFB is the 2nd largest USAF base (Eglin AFB is the biggest) at 301,000 acres (approx. 480 sq mi). -- Mary Shafer shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov ames!skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov!shafer NASA Ames Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA Of course I don't speak for NASA "A MiG at your six is better than no MiG at all"--Unknown US fighter pilot