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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: Abort to Orbit
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Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 14:21:25 EDT
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NASA is looking at flight refuelling for the shuttle-carrier 747, in fact,
because there are some possible emergency landing sites which are not
within 747+shuttle range of another airport.  Aborting a polar-orbit launch
from Vandenberg, for example, you end up on one of a few small islands way
the hell out in the Pacific.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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