Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: shuttle landing early?
Message-ID: <1990Dec10.172554.542@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <47228@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 90 17:25:54 GMT

In article <47228@apple.Apple.COM> han@Apple.COM (Byron Han) writes:
>Why can't they land at KSC if weather is gonna be bad at Edwards like the
>last mission?  

In a pinch they can, but they prefer not to.  KSC gets lots of surprise
thunderstorms; the weather there is hard to predict even half an hour in
advance, and once the de-orbit burn occurs the orbiter is committed.
-- 
"The average pointer, statistically,    |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
points somewhere in X." -Hugh Redelmeier| henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry