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From: kwan@smeagol.UUCP (Richard Kwan)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Shuttle Ditching
Message-ID: <610@smeagol.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Feb-86 19:41:59 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 19 19:41:59 1986
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Organization: Spacecraft Data Systems, JPL, Pasadena, CA
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> What we SHOULD have done is launched the thing from Texas
> or La to pass OVER the Cape, so that the orbiter could easily glide
> straight to Canaveral after an abort.
> Hindsight sure is 20-20.... mike k

Texas or La?  Louisiana?  I hope that wasn't Los Angeles.
         ^^
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		Rick Kwan
		JPL Spacecraft Data Systems
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