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Originally Posted by Netspeed View Post
They were originally going to fly and land them out of Vandenburg Air Force base but after the first shuttle disaster, they decided to fly all missions out of Florida.
Which one would that be? Challenger was 5 years into the program.

The closer to the equator, the better. The rotational speed cuts lots of mile-seconds off the fuel. We'd be better off still in the Marshall Islands, or even Hawaii.

ONE of these days, we'll use electric catapult.
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