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From: nam2254@dsacg2.dsac.dla.mil (Tom Ohmer)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: SCA range (was: Re: In-Flight Refueling)
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Date: 23 Apr 91 12:25:22 GMT
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From article <SHAFER.91Apr18075235@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov>, by shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer):
> [] 
> The primary purpose, incidentally, wasn't to save time, it was to
> retrieve the Shuttle from such alternate landing sites as Hickam AFB
> in Hawaii.  The SCA doesn't have the range, carrying the Shuttle, to
> make it back from there.
> []

{Sorry if this is seen twice.  inews gave me an error message the first
time so, I thought this didn't make it out.}

OK, Mary, I'll bite.  Just how would we retrieve a Shuttle from one of
the distant alternate landing sites.

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