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Subject: G. Harry Stine
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Date: Fri, 24-Jan-86 08:47:58 EST
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From: "MARTIN J. MOORE" <mooremj@eglin-vax>

> Lyle McElhaney

> Unless I am very much mistaken, G. Harry Stine is the man's real
> name; it is by that name that some friends of mine knew him long
> before he became a writer.  Lee Correy is a pseudonym, and Reed
> Richardson is the name of one of the main characters in SHUTTLE DOWN.

Quite true.

> Some hype has been added to the cover, stating that the problems involved in
> shuttle recovery on polar orbits out of Vandenburg were first explored in this
> book (copyright 1981) before the US negotiated a treaty with Chile for use of
> Easter Island as an emergency landing point (1985), and that may be true. 

Also true...and not only that, this book spurred a NASA study on mid-flight
refueling of the Shuttle-carrier 747; the book pointed out that the max fuel
load was insufficient for a trip from Easter Island to the mainland.
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