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- From: matthew@phantom.gatech.edu (Matthew DeLuca)
- Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
- Subject: Re: Can You See A Shuttle Launch From Orlando?
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 18:29:40 -0500
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- In article <11825@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> wasser@dirac.scri.fsu.edu (Steve Wasser) writes:
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- >I've been wondering: what is the farthest from KSC anyone
- >has been able to observe a shuttle launch? I suppose we
- >should separate daytime and nighttime launches.
-
- On a very clear day, you can just barely distinguish a Shuttle launch from
- the top of the Peachtree Plaza hotel here in Atlanta. Atlanta is 1000 feet
- above sea level and the hotel is another 743 feet tall, so this probably
- has something to do with it.
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