Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: KSC and tornados
Message-ID: <1991Apr11.161508.29856@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1991 16:15:08 GMT
References: <1991Apr10.213011.8851@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Apr10.213011.8851@umiami.ir.miami.edu> jdeitch@umiami.ir.miami.edu (Jonathan Deitch) writes:
>... Would a shuttle on the launch pad be able
>to withstand a tornado without too much damage...

Probably.  The pad structure, nowadays, pretty completely encloses the
orbiter, so the question is how the pad hardware would stand up to it.
Such structures tend to be built for worst-case weather.
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