Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!percival!bucket!leonard
From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: "Shuttle Down" (was Re: Vandenburg never to used?)
Message-ID: <1114@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 19 Oct 88 01:13:40 GMT
References: <41680@pyramid.pyramid.com> <22000007@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <7166@ihlpl.ATT.COM> <1988Oct15.231401.27240@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
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In article <1988Oct15.231401.27240@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
<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).

I've always thought it was rather unfortunate that "Shuttle Down" was
re-issued just before the Challenger accident. 
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