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From: eder@ssc-vax.UUCP (Dani Eder)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: Shuttle landings & Orlando International
Message-ID: <103@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Apr-84 16:55:09 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 25 16:55:09 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Apr-84 08:26:18 EST
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Organization: Boeing Aerospace, Seattle
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25 April 1984

     I'm looking at a copy of the approach and landing charts the astronauts
use during Shuttle returns.  It identifies all the possible landing sites for
the Orbiter.  In addition to KSC runway 33, which is the normal landing site, 
the following are identified in the vicinity of KSC:

A 10000 foot skid strip at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (adjacent to the
Kennedy Space Center)
Orlando International
MacDill Air Force Base near St. Petersburg, Fl
Cecil Field Naval Air Station, near Jacksonville, FL
Tyndall Air Force Base, Panama City Fl
Elgin Air Force Base, Pensacola, Fl

The last two mentioned are about 300 nautical miles from KSC, the rest are
within about 120 nautical miles.  


                                              Dani Eder
                                              Boeing Aerospace Comapny
                                             ssc-vax!eder