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From: mcdowell@cfa250.harvard.edu (Jonathan McDowell)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Edwards and Dryden
Message-ID: <1114@cfa237.cfa250.harvard.edu>
Date: 5 Oct 88 12:56:27 GMT
References: <15991@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
Organization: Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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From article <15991@ames.arc.nasa.gov>, by yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee):
> DISCOVERY PROCESSING REPORT FOR - TUES., OCT. 4, 1988
>           AMES-DRYDEN FLIGHT RESEARCH FACILITY, CALIF.
>      Discovery's main landing gear touched down at 9:37:08 a.m.
> (PDT) yesterday on Runway 17

Does the Shuttle land at Dryden or at Edwards? Is there in fact a
distinction?

The NASA Ames-Dryden Center (DFRF) is colocated with the USAF Edwards
Air Force Base (EAFB) in (I guess) a similar way to the NASA Kennedy
Space Center lying next to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.  [ The
Shuttle is launched from Kennedy Space Center but the Delta and Atlas
Centaur are launched from Cape Canaveral AFS.] But which bits are in
DFRF and which in EAFB? Are all the runways in fact on DFRF as the above
note implies or are they (or some of them) on EAFB territory? Or is DFRF
considered to be on EAFB land?


I'm sure there is someone on the net who knows the answer to this. (Eugene,
are you there?)

Jonathan McDowell