> 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. ------------------------------ 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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