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From: alb@alice.UUCP (Adam L. Buchsbaum)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Chile Agrees to Provide Easter Island for Emergency Landings
Message-ID: <4102@alice.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 3-Aug-85 01:33:17 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug  3 01:33:17 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 4-Aug-85 08:15:37 EDT
Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill
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The U.S. and Chile today signed an eight year pact under which
Chile will allow NASA to modify the runway on Easter Island for
use in case of an emergency shuttle landing there.  NASA will
be able to keep people there and, in an actual emergency, send
up to 450 specialists at one time.  The pact grants only the
present four shuttles landing priviledges and only as long as
they are owned and operated by NASA.