Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Vandenburg never to used?
Message-ID: <1988Oct15.231401.27240@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <41680@pyramid.pyramid.com> <22000007@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <7166@ihlpl.ATT.COM>
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 88 23:14:01 GMT

In article <7166@ihlpl.ATT.COM> knudsen@ihlpl.ATT.COM (Knudsen) writes:
>There is a reasonably good novel "Shuttle Down" about a shuttle
>launch from Vandenberg that suffers a premature MECO (all 3)
>and has to land at Easter Island.  Mostly concerns the technical
>and political (Chile) headaches of getting the unharmed bird
>back to the US...

Harry Stine (who writes fiction as Lee Correy), who wrote "Shuttle Down",
can probably take some credit for getting a lot more emergency-landing
preparations made.  Many of the problems in the book have been fixed;
for example, things like runway upgrades have been done on Rapa Nui (aka
Isla de Pascua, aka Easter Island).
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