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From: jabishop@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Jonathan A Bishop)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Shuttle question
Message-ID: <1990Nov30.030640.30965@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 30 Nov 90 03:06:40 GMT
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henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:

>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 last one just did.  The weather at Edwards was prohibitively bad.
Fortunately, we haven't landed any in a thunderstorm, but dense fog developed
between re-entry and landing on at least one KSC landing.
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