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From: tom@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Tom Egelston (Boomer))
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Length of STS-36
Message-ID: <1990Feb28.082140.26159@uokmax.uucp>
Date: 28 Feb 90 08:21:40 GMT
Sender: tom@uokmax.uucp (Tom Egelston (Boomer))
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     During CNN's coverage of the Atlantis launch this morning, the reporter
speculated that the mission duration would probably be about four and one-half
days, which implies an afternoon landing.
     Doesn't a night launch necessitate a night landing?  Isn't that the way
it is usually done?  And if you can make a daylight landing after a night
launch with no penalty, why would NASA ever have a night landing?
     I guess what I need to know is why a night landing usually follows a
nighttime launch.  Just curious...

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          Tom Egelston      Internet: tom@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu
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