"Danny Deger" wrote in message
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Here's another section of my autobiography on STS-37 landing short of the
runway.

Danny Deger

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Within days of my taking over this job, a shuttle landed short of the
runway. Fortunately, the landing was on the lakebed and Edwards Air Force
Base, where landing short is not a problem. If the landing had been at
Kennedy, we would have lost the orbiter and the crew.
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Interesting stuff, I didn't know about this.


Hypothetically, if this had taken place at KSC, is there nowhere the
orbiter could have been belly landed with some chance of survival? Could a
shuttle ditch without being destroyed?