henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (11/30/89)
In article <116.UUL1.3#5131@mvac23.UUCP> mvac23!thomas@udel.edu writes: >> ... the problem is that the range- >> safety people want to see several hundred kilometers, at least, of ocean or >> uninhabited land downrange of a launch site. > >Just to bring the point home, if Challenger had been launched from Edwards, >where would the pieces have hit the earth? Probably within the Edwards reservation, I'd guess. That accident happened pretty early. It's the slightly later ones that the safety people worry about. -- That's not a joke, that's | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology NASA. -Nick Szabo | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu