Edwards will be open for alternite site

ok, i just heard that Edwards will be open tomarrow for an alternite
landing site.


Angela

On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 05:35:10 -0400, angela copus
wrote:

ok, i just heard that Edwards will be open tomarrow for an alternite
landing site.


Angela

During the coverage EARLY this morning, someone was saying that they
didn't want to do that because

1. It costs a lot of money to move the shuttle back to the cape.

2. It would mean that they couldn't make the next scheduled launch
because they couldn't get Discovery back to the cape in time to be the
rescue shuttle for that launch. I guess that statement kind of ignored
the grounding due to the foam problem.

I think some reporter said that there was actually a third landing
window this morning at Edwards and the weather there was good, but
they ignored it for the reasons specified above.

IIRC, this came up shortly after the decision to miss the first
landing window.

-- David

On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 16:41:44 -0500, David Ball
wrote:

I think some reporter said that there was actually a third landing
window this morning at Edwards and the weather there was good, but
they ignored it for the reasons specified above.

Actually, I think that might have been White Sands instead of Edwards.

-- David