"Jon Berndt" wrote in message news:3f3db788$0$64929
FWIW, I have actually seen TAL in some NASA docs as Trans-Atlantic
Landing,
although now everyone seems careful about calling it Transoceanic Abort
Landing.

True, some NASA people are human, but then how does that explain the TAL
abort from Vandenberg that we designed, into Easter Island or Hao?