Jonathan T Wojack wrote: > 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? Not necessarily. Landing a shuttle on a TAL site is a very expensive matter. There are many facilities in the U.S. which would serve as emergency landing sites: Edwards (AFB), CA KSC, FL Northrup (WSSH), NM Andersen (AFB), Guam Cherry Point (MCAS), NC Dover (AFB), DE Dyess (AFB), TX Ellsworth (AFB), SD Hickam (AFB) Honolulu Mountain Home (AFB), ID Oceana (NAS), VA Otis (ANGB), Falmouth, MA Pease AP, Portsmouth, NH Lincoln Municipal, NE Myrtle Beach, SC Orlando International, FL Elmendorf (AFB), AK Best regards, Oscar.- W6.2990 N36.5340 Alt. 7m. -- __________________________________________________________ OSCAR AUGUSTO RODRIGUEZ BAQUERO Project Manager, first Museum of Space Flight in Spain E-mail address: mailto:museo-espacial@arrakis.es mailto:obaquero@arrakis.es Website: http://www.astrored.net/museo-espacial http://www.arrakis.es/~obaquero http://mespacio.pvirt.com International mail address: P.O. Box 2763 E-11080 CADIZ - SPAIN Phone #: (+34) 64 931 6961 __________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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