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From: leem@jplpro.JPL.NASA.GOV (Lee Mellinger)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: shuttle landing sites
Message-ID: <3401@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 24 Oct 88 18:34:53 GMT
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In article <1730@eos.UUCP> eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) writes:
|In article <6400012@cpe> tif@cpe.UUCP writes:
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|But--- the principal advantage to Murdoc Lake is the relatively good weather
                                   ^^^^^^
|and fairly consistent winds from the West.  This is due to the Mtns
|formed by the San Andreas and Garlock faults.  A wedge shaped
|angle which nearly points into the prevailing winds. This consistency helps
|get most of those inches.  It's hard to tell velocity of something you
|can't see moving air) [with any range, before anyone mentions radar].
|
|--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@aurora.arc.nasa.gov

That's Muroc, Gene, close but no cigar.

Lee


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