Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tekigm2!johnob From: johnob@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM (John Obendorfer) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Hawaii as a launching site Message-ID: <7641@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM> Date: 21 Dec 89 19:03:57 GMT References: <3831@orion.cf.uci.edu> <9222@elsie.UUCP> <771@ritcsh.cs.rit.edu> Reply-To: johnob@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM (John Obendorfer) Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Vancouver, WA. Lines: 18 In article <771@ritcsh.cs.rit.edu> carl@ritcsh.cs.rit.edu.UUCP (Captain Carl) writes: >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?? Well, the last time I was hopping around the south point of the big island, down below the Kiliuea (sp) volcano, I was literally hopping on a 2-week old lava flow, watching the *really* hot stuff drop into the ocean. I can see it now: "STS-37 will be launched now no sooner than February 18, 1990. The launch will slip as NASA technicans must clear the pad of now-hardened lava from recent eruptions ... " The Hawaii volcanoes are the most active volcanos in the world. Hail Pele, John