Re: NASA Instituting Crowd Control on Shuttle

From: Andrew Lotosky (skylon_at_gmail.com)
Date: 03/25/05 

Date: 25 Mar 2005 15:08:20 -0800

Jeff Findley wrote:
>
> I was waiting for Mary or Henry to respond to this. ;-)
>
> The "incredible mess", as Mary put it, has to be the biggest reason
that
> there has only been one landing at White Sands.
>
> If I remember right, NASA didn't land at KSC until well after the
White
> Sands landing.
>
> Jeff
> --
> Remove icky phrase from email address to get a valid address.

Early 1984 to be exact, STS 41-B (though at least one flight earlier
had been scheduled for KSC but diverted).

I seem to recall at least one of the early post-Challenger missions
being diverted from Edwards to KSC, which IMHO illustrates just how
much of a "last resort" White Sands has been seen as.

-A.L.

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