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Article #6104Re: Hawaii as a launching site
From: Mary Shafer (OFV)
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1989 17:29
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1989 17:29
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In article <IA80024.89352200552@MAINE.BITNET> IA80024@MAINE.BITNET (Nicholas C. Hester) writes:
>After reading the responses to my query on shuttle landings at KSC and the
>use of Vandenburg for future launches, I was wondering about the possibility
>of using Hawaii. I had heard that it was up for consideration regarding the
>launching of commercial vehicles and was wondering what the chance was of
>building a new shuttle launch facility there. It has ocean to protect against
>a debri from another Challenger type accident as well as nice weather.
>Comments?
There's no way to get the Shuttle to Hawaii safely and uncorroded. It
would have to be deck cargo on a ship and would be damaged before it
ever arrived, since Hawaii is beyond 747 range.
I suppose you could land there from orbit, but I'm not sure the
weather is enough better than Florida to make this viable. The times
I've been in Hawaii, there's been a lot of rain and you can't land the
Shuttle in rain.
--
Mary Shafer shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov or ames!skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov!shafer
NASA Ames Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA
Of course I don't speak for NASA
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