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From: mark@watsnew.waterloo.edu (Mark Earnshaw)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Hawaii as a launching site
Summary: Nowhere to land in Pacific
Keywords: shuttle,Hawaii
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Date: 19 Dec 89 22:31:00 GMT
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In article <1989Dec19.172843.10529@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>                                  I'd also expect some practical problems;
>in particular, I'm not sure the shuttle-carrier 747 can make it from the
>mainland to Hawaii with an orbiter on its back.  (Although there has been
>talk of adding flight refuelling facilities to the carrier.)

Wouldn't another problem be the fact that if anything goes wrong with the 747,
there's nowhere to land in the middle of the Pacific.  Kind of an expensive
way to lose an orbiter.

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Mark Earnshaw, Systems Design Engineering      {uunet,utai}!watmath!watsnew!mark
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