Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!censun1!lescsse!gamorris
From: gamorris@lescsse.uucp (Gary A. Morris)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: shuttle landing early?
Keywords: edwards ksc
Message-ID: <1990Dec11.171057.1997@lescsse.uucp>
Date: 11 Dec 90 17:10:57 GMT
References: <47228@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: Lockheed Engineering and Sciences
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In <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?  

Tuesdays forecast for both EDW and KSC were for low clouds and rain.  
Edwards was first choice for a Monday landing.

The landing went well except for the loss of comm after the deorbit
burn.  The central control computer at White Sands went down and all
TDRS comm and telemetry was lost.  It took them about 10 minutes to get
a backup computer booted and online.  I wonder why they don't keep the
backup on hot standby??  This is the second time this happened on this
flight.  The first time it took 30 minutes to get back online.

--GaryM
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