Newsgroups: sci.space
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Hawaiian spaceport? (Was: Re: SPACE Digest V8 #221)
Message-ID: <1988Jun16.193222.3405@utzoo.uucp>
Keywords: south sea artificial launch platform
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <880611013552.2500654f@Csa5.LBL.Gov>, <4940@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 88 19:32:22 GMT

> ... and what are the relative pros and cons of sea ditching versus
> land ditching as regards safety to crew and others? ...

As for others, you are less likely to hit something when you come down
in the sea because people don't build houses there very often.  As for
the crew, it makes no real difference because the orbiter is too fragile
to survive a ditching.
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Man is the best computer we can      |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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