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Article #8008Re: Hawaiian spaceport? (Was: Re: SPACE Digest V8 #221)
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 1988 19:32
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 1988 19:32
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> ... and what are the relative pros and cons of sea ditching versus
> land ditching as regards safety to crew and others? ...
As for others, you are less likely to hit something when you come down
in the sea because people don't build houses there very often. As for
the crew, it makes no real difference because the orbiter is too fragile
to survive a ditching.
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Newsgroups: sci.space Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Hawaiian spaceport? (Was: Re: SPACE Digest V8 #221) Message-ID: <1988Jun16.193222.3405@utzoo.uucp> Keywords: south sea artificial launch platform Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <880611013552.2500654f@Csa5.LBL.Gov>, <4940@dasys1.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 88 19:32:22 GMT