I have asked NASA to land the Shuttle at night over the continental United States as often as possible, and to widely publicize the re-entries, and other visible events like water dumps. I am a new Republican member of Congress from Houston, Texas, (District 7), and I asked to serve on the House Science Committee's Aeronautics and Space Subcommittee so I could help strengthen America's manned and unmanned space program. I was lucky enough to witness a Shuttle re-entry from my front yard in Houston as it zipped along, creating a thick, bright, laser straight vapor trail to Florida. NASA could inspire a tremendous amount of public interest in the space program simply by scheduling and publicizing re-entries and other visible events. I welcome your ideas and input.. John Culberson United States Congress Washington, DC 20515 john.culberson@mail.house.gov (Of course, I have asked that SeeSat subscribers be a regular part of NASA's notification network for Shuttle rentries, water dumps, etc.) "Matson, Robert" wrote: > Hi Dale, > > > Why doesn't NASA consider landing the Shuttle on a descending night time > > pass at KSC? > > Perhaps sonic boom issues and/or the requirement to fly over > heavily populated areas. > > --Rob > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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