Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Shuttle question
Message-ID: <1990Nov30.003524.848@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <37200@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <1990Nov19.140100@alazif.cxo.dec.com> <3795@cuisun.unige.ch> <40040@ut-emx.uucp> <1990Nov26.113837@alazif.cxo.dec.com> <523@newave.UUCP> <4985@bwdls58.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 90 00:35:24 GMT

In article <4985@bwdls58.UUCP> hwt@bwdlh490.BNR.CA (Henry Troup) writes:
>Has a shuttle ever been landed at KSC?  ...

It was done a few times before the Challenger disaster.  They haven't yet
worked themselves up to it since, and possibly never will.  It is a lot
more convenient not to have to ferry the orbiter back across the continent,
but the Cape's weather is very hard to predict far enough ahead to make
the go/no-go decision for reentry safely.  Surprise thunderstorms are common.
-- 
"The average pointer, statistically,    |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
points somewhere in X." -Hugh Redelmeier| henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry