I believe Jorge Frank has pointed out that the cross-range ability has been
used quite a bit to enable more landing opportunities.



"Fevric J. Glandules" wrote in message ...

Pat Flannery wrote:

But yeah, you're right...we would still have built something new after
that, probably the same Shuttle.

If I've understood s.s.h correctly over the years, what really
screwed shuttle was the cross-range capability demanded by the
military and then not used.