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From: bl@hplabsb.UUCP (Bruce T. Lowerre)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Shuttle Ditching
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Date: Mon, 24-Feb-86 19:30:30 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 24 19:30:30 1986
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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

Yes, that would also make it easier to recover all the debris.  The
large wing section would be removed from the school building in Dallas,
the lower fuselage section from the housing development in Phoenix, the
left SRB pieces from the slum in Mexico, and the right SRB from downtown
Flagstaff.