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From: rroberts@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Ross Allan Roberts)
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Subject: Re: Edwards landings
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Date: 10 May 91 19:06:10 GMT
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>2) Room for error.  I just read that several flights ago, one of the shuttles
>actually touched down 700' short of the runway at Edwards.  Out there in the
>desert you could land several thousand feet short with no big deal.  The
>Florida runway does have a 1000' overrun at either end of the runway, but this
>is still less error margin than at Edwards.\

Isn't braking a factor too? I thought I read once that a shuttle landing at
KSC burned completely through its brake linings trying to stop in time. I 
do know they have beefed up the brakes, but it's still a quick stop at KSC.

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