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From: roberts@triton.unm.edu
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Shuttle Landing Strip
Message-ID: <1991May23.182719.7612@ariel.unm.edu>
Date: 23 May 91 18:27:19 GMT
References: <32726@usc> <1991May10.135453.509@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <287@hsvaic.boeing.com>
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In article <287@hsvaic.boeing.com> eder@hsvaic.boeing.com (Dani Eder) writes:
>
>Has anyone on the NET ever wondered why the Space Shuttle landing strip
>was built NOT pointing into the prevailing winds? Or if the winds
>are variable, why didn't they build more than one runway to cover
>different wind directions, like some airports do?

Having not been to the runway area at KSC at my only time there, I would
guess that the marshes and other objects were factors in deciding which way the KSC shuttle landing strip would face.       

Robert