mooremj@eglin-vax (01/24/86)
From: "MARTIN J. MOORE" <mooremj@eglin-vax> > Lyle McElhaney > Unless I am very much mistaken, G. Harry Stine is the man's real > name; it is by that name that some friends of mine knew him long > before he became a writer. Lee Correy is a pseudonym, and Reed > Richardson is the name of one of the main characters in SHUTTLE DOWN. Quite true. > Some hype has been added to the cover, stating that the problems involved in > shuttle recovery on polar orbits out of Vandenburg were first explored in this > book (copyright 1981) before the US negotiated a treaty with Chile for use of > Easter Island as an emergency landing point (1985), and that may be true. Also true...and not only that, this book spurred a NASA study on mid-flight refueling of the Shuttle-carrier 747; the book pointed out that the max fuel load was insufficient for a trip from Easter Island to the mainland. ------