leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) (10/19/88)
In article <1988Oct15.231401.27240@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: <In article <7166@ihlpl.ATT.COM> knudsen@ihlpl.ATT.COM (Knudsen) writes: <>There is a reasonably good novel "Shuttle Down" about a shuttle <>launch from Vandenberg that suffers a premature MECO (all 3) <>and has to land at Easter Island. Mostly concerns the technical <>and political (Chile) headaches of getting the unharmed bird <>back to the US... < <Harry Stine (who writes fiction as Lee Correy), who wrote "Shuttle Down", <can probably take some credit for getting a lot more emergency-landing <preparations made. Many of the problems in the book have been fixed; <for example, things like runway upgrades have been done on Rapa Nui (aka <Isla de Pascua, aka Easter Island). I've always thought it was rather unfortunate that "Shuttle Down" was re-issued just before the Challenger accident. -- Leonard Erickson ...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard CIS: [70465,203] "I used to be a hacker. Now I'm a 'microcomputer specialist'. You know... I'd rather be a hacker."