Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!rochester!rit!ritcsh!carl From: carl@ritcsh.cs.rit.edu (Captain Carl) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Hawaii as a launching site Message-ID: <771@ritcsh.cs.rit.edu> Date: 21 Dec 89 00:30:28 GMT References: <3831@orion.cf.uci.edu> <9222@elsie.UUCP> Reply-To: carl@ritcsh.cs.rit.edu.UUCP (Captain Carl) Organization: Computer Science House @ RIT, Rochester, NY Lines: 18 In article <9222@elsie.UUCP> ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) writes: > >A shuttle-loaded 747 doesn't need to travel from San Francisco to Hawaii. . . >the shuttle can be put on a low-tech, unglamorous boat for the trip. Just exactly how feasable would that be, putting the Shuttle on a Boat to send across the ocean. I don't think that NASA would be to keen about that idea. Especially with the tropical storms that pop up from nowhere in the middle of the ocean. Also, wouldn't it be a bad idea to launch the shuttle from the Islands with all the active volcanoes and bad weather they have?? -- "Captain" Carl Johnson @ Computer Science House Rochester Institute of Technology carl@ritcsh.cs.rit.edu bitnet - cej2421@ritvax "It takes two to speak the truth, -one to speak, and another to hear."