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Re: STS-1 Disaster -- follow-up #2

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From: Simon E. Booth
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 22:20
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In article <D2150035.lsrsh6@outpost.SF-Bay.org> peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce) writes:
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>In article <78159@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM> (sci.space.shuttle,alt.conspiracy,talk.politics.misc), mwilson@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Mark Wilson) writes:
>> In article <1h3059INNq8n@news.cerf.net>, eidetics@nic.cerf.net (Eidetics Int'l) writes:
>> | 8) One source that you may want to use for your research is "Aviation Week and
>> |    Space Technology".  This weekly industry journal has reported every shuttle
>> |    flight in great detail.  They go to great lengths to find and report on
>> |    secret or classified data.  You will find not a hint about the secret flight.
>> |
>> |    THEY ARE EITHER IGNORANT THEMSELVES, OR AFRAID TO SAY ANYTHING.
>>
>> Considering the average shuttle launch can be seen for several hundred
>> miles, how did they manage to launch one, and NOBODY noticed.
>
>It's obvious: secret bases in the Pacific.
No, it was underground silos in Brazil! :-)

(see the James Bond film 'Moonraker' for more details.  I always wondered
how one could launch 6 shuttles from underground without anyone seeing
them launch, and without anyone feeling the ground shaking)

Simon
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Subject: Re: STS-1 Disaster -- follow-up #2
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