Jonathan T Wojack wrote: > > 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: > > <snip> > > Are you sure? As I recall, a suitable runway for a Shuttle landing must > be 3+ miles (~4.5+ km) long. I thought only three sites met that single > specification. As I read, runways with less than 4.5 km are equipped with drag nets and other devices which help to decrease the orbiter speed once it is on the runway. Moron and Rota runways (current and past TAL sites, respectively) have this type of devices because they are less than 4.5 km long. Best regards, Oscar.- W6.2990 N36.5340 Alt. 7m. +1.00 GMT -- __________________________________________________________ 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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