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From: afmartp@lims03.lerc.nasa.gov (PETER MARTIN)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Watching Shuttle Landings at KSC
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Date: 12 Apr 91 14:09:02 GMT
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In article <8502@crash.cts.com>, root@crash.cts.com (Bill Blue) writes...
>I've watched a number of shuttle take offs at KSC, but I've never seen a
>landing there.  Short of being on the property itself, where is/are the best
>place(s) to see the shuttle land if Kennedy is chosen instead of Edwards?
> 
>What is the orientation of the runway?  Is it likely based on wind that the
>shuttle could land in one of the two directions, or is only one of the
>directions acceptable?
> 
There is no really good place to view a shuttle landing if you are not on 
the base itself.  The runway is miles inside the boarder of the center, and 
since there is no massive rocket plume and smoke trailing the orbiter, it 
is not as easy to locate as a launch if you are not set up in the right 
direction to view it.  When I worked at the Cape, we used to have a good view
of a landing by just walking out of our trailer offices that were located right
 next to the OPF (Orbiter Processing Facility).  If I remember corectly, 
the runway is oriented in close to a North-South direction, or somewhat 
parallel to the coastline.  But anyway, it is pretty easy to miss if you 
don't know right where to look.
Pete