Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: shuttle landing sites
Message-ID: <1988Oct15.230935.27132@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <15991@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <6400010@cpe> <1988Oct10.224026.12802@utzoo.uucp> <16439@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 88 23:09:35 GMT

In article <16439@ames.arc.nasa.gov> mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov.UUCP (Mike Smithwick) writes:
>...This is why NASA is 
>considering putting nets at the end of these sites to catch the thing if it
>goes too far.

Not "considering", they've done it.  KSC has one, and two out of three of
the other emergency landing sites for STS-26 had them.
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