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From: todd@ivucsb.UUCP (Todd Day)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Atlantis is home!
Message-ID: <781@ivucsb.UUCP>
Date: 10 May 89 15:04:50 GMT
References: <272@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov> <779@ivucsb.UUCP> <3240@kalliope.rice.edu>
Reply-To: todd@ivucsb.UUCP (Todd Day)
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In article <3240@kalliope.rice.edu> phil@Rice.edu (William LeFebvre) writes:
~I suspect that they had you positioned for a landing on runway 17 (that's
~certainly where the convoy was poised).  The switch to 22 was made within
~20 (15, even?) minutes of landing.

I'm kinda curious about what runways are what, so I'm going to draw a
crude map:

		+-----+			|	|		+-----+
		|     |			|	|		|     |
		+-----+			|	|		+-----+
					|  22	|
	various buildings		+-------+
					 strip

					   ^
					   ^			--> N
					   ^
					   ^
		about half-a-mile          ^   path of shuttle
					   ^
					   ^
					   ^
					   ^
					   ^
					   ^
				fence	   ^
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
	X - where I was

What I want to know is, where is runway 17?  We saw no markings on
the dry lake bed in front of us.  Also, it looked like the fence was
fairly permanent, so most landings must have the crowd at the same place.
The radio claimed right before the landing that it was going to come
in NE to SW, which would have given us a cherry view.

-- 
-Todd Day-

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