Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Why is Edwards the primary site?
Message-ID: <1991May11.222140.10002@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Sat, 11 May 1991 22:21:40 GMT
References: <3218.282A166A@ofa123.fidonet.org> <32726@usc> <825@newave.UUCP>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <825@newave.UUCP> john@newave.mn.org (John A. Weeks III) writes:
>The biggest reason for avoiding KSC is an issue with the orbiter braking
>system.  There have been problems with the older brake pads.  A brake
>failure at KSC would result in loss of vehicle when the orbiter ran off
>of the end of the runway...

The KSC runway, and most of the normal alternate runways, now have an
arresting-net system to cope with this possibility.
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