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From: carson@tron.UUCP (Dana Carson)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Vandenburg never to used?
Message-ID: <375@tron.UUCP>
Date: 14 Oct 88 07:58:17 GMT
References: <41680@pyramid.pyramid.com> <22000007@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <7166@ihlpl.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: carson@tron.UMD.EDU (Dana Carson)
Organization: Westinghouse Electronic Systems Group, Baltimore, MD
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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.  Such as improving the runway enough to land the
>some sensitive DOD spystat, it can get even stickier.  This too was
>touched on in the book.

One of the people I work with called NASA about one of the things in the
book.  As Lee Correy stated they don't carry passports and at least then
had no plans to start.  So they could be considered ilegal aliens :-)

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