Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Hawaii as a launching site
Message-ID: <1989Dec20.045341.2020@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <3831@orion.cf.uci.edu> <1711@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 89 04:53:41 GMT

In article <1711@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil> net8709@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil (Mary Jane Pees) writes:
>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?

Not that I know of.  The eastern Pacific is *very* empty.  Mind you, the
Atlantic isn't exactly full of islands either -- there is no shuttle
emergency landing site between the Cape and Europe.
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