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From: dkrause@orion.cf.uci.edu (Doug Krause)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: shuttle landing sites
Message-ID: <1137@orion.cf.uci.edu>
Date: 30 Oct 88 09:36:15 GMT
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References: <2137@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu> <5590@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> <794@hadron.UUCP> <7225@dasys1.UUCP> <370@gronk.UUCP> <5157@polyslo.CalPoly.
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In article <5157@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> steve@polyslo.UUCP (Steve DeJarnett) writes:
>	And the runways at LAX are (well, at least one of them is) 11,000+
>feet long.  That alone doesn't qualify it to be a shuttle landing site.

Two of the runways are longer than 11,000 feet.  I know that one of the
four was torn up this last year in order to be rebuilt.  I don't know
which one, so these figures might not be accurate to date.

Runway   Length  Width
------   ------  -----
24R       9525   150
24L      10285   150
25R      12091   150
25L      12000   200

Also remember that the shuttle only gets one shot.  If it lands going
west (as all regular flights do) and blows it, the shuttle is in the
Pacific.  If it screws up going east, it lands in The Forum.  :-)

Douglas Krause             "East is east... let's keep it that way."
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