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From: net8709@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil (Mary Jane Pees)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Hawaii as a launching site
Message-ID: <1711@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil>
Date: 19 Dec 89 22:37:51 GMT
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From article <3831@orion.cf.uci.edu>, by dkrause@orion.oac.uci.edu (Doug Krause):
< In article <IA80024.89352200552@MAINE.BITNET> IA80024@MAINE.BITNET (Nicholas C. Hester) writes:
< #a debri from another Challenger type accident as well as nice weather.

< Could a shuttle-loaded 747 make it to Hawaii?  The closest mainland city
< is probably San Francisco and that's about 2200? miles away.

And is there anywhere that an emergency landing strip could be built (or any 
existing facility) that would be used in an early post-launch failure?