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Shuttle cross-range Q.
This article about the X-37B:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12...unch_tomorrow/ reminds me of something I've been meaning to ask. Much has been made (by some) of the military-mandated cross- range capability of the STS which (according to some) essentially crippled the Shuttle as a civilian transport due to the excesssively expensive and fragile TPS. The given scenario is always a single polar orbit launched from and returning to Vandenberg. But why not just launch from, say, White Sands, and land at Vandenberg? |
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