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From: eder@ssc-vax.UUCP (Dani Eder)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: VAFB Questions
Message-ID: <687@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 16-Dec-83 13:54:30 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 16 13:54:30 1983
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                                                 16 december 1983

     The reason for two launch sites for the Shuttle is safety.  The Shuttle

is not allowed to fly over inhabited areas.  This limits launches from KSC to 

low inclinations (up to 57 degrees).  Any more northerly would cause the 

vehicle to overfly Newfoundland (I think).  Launches from Vandenberg will

be southerly, over the Pacific.  That will allow polar type orbits.  As for

landing, the Maps and Charts book I have (from the set of data the 

astronauts carry with them) show Vandenberg, Oxnard, LAX, Long Beach, and

other fields as potential emergency landing sites, based on having a long

enough runway, >10,000 feet.



                                                 Dani Eder

                                                 Boeing Aerospace