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Article #6085Re: Hawaii as a launching site
From: Mark Earnshaw
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1989 22:31
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1989 22:31
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In article <1989Dec19.172843.10529@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
> I'd also expect some practical problems;
>in particular, I'm not sure the shuttle-carrier 747 can make it from the
>mainland to Hawaii with an orbiter on its back. (Although there has been
>talk of adding flight refuelling facilities to the carrier.)
Wouldn't another problem be the fact that if anything goes wrong with the 747,
there's nowhere to land in the middle of the Pacific. Kind of an expensive
way to lose an orbiter.
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Mark Earnshaw, Systems Design Engineering {uunet,utai}!watmath!watsnew!mark
University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada mark@watsnew.waterloo.{edu,cdn}
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watcgl!watsnew!mark From: mark@watsnew.waterloo.edu (Mark Earnshaw) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Hawaii as a launching site Summary: Nowhere to land in Pacific Keywords: shuttle,Hawaii Message-ID: <12768@watcgl.waterloo.edu> Date: 19 Dec 89 22:31:00 GMT References: <IA80024.89352200552@MAINE.BITNET> <1989Dec19.172843.10529@utzoo.uucp> Sender: daemon@watcgl.waterloo.edu Reply-To: mark@watsnew.waterloo.edu (Mark Earnshaw) Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 13