During the last Space Shuttle mission (not STS-102, the one before), they landed one day before their supplies would have run out. My question is: If the weather had continued to be bad in those two parts of the U.S., could they have landed at one of the transatlantic abort sites? If not (or if the weather was bad there, too), could the Space Shuttle have gone back to the International Space Station? If you are out of supplies, then what are you to do.....? I realize that having bad weather everywhere is very unlikely, but it is still a possibility. The last Space Shuttle mission's delays made me think about this. ------------------------------ Jonathan T. Wojack tlj18@juno.com 39.706d N 75.683d W http://www.geocities.com/tlj18_99/ 5 hours behind UT (-5) ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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