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- From: pettengi@ial3.jsc.nasa.gov (James B. Pettengill)
- Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle,talk.politics.space
- Subject: hurricane andrew
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.213756.6578@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
- Date: 3 Sep 1992 21:37:56 GMT
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- With all the talk of the damage in south florida,
- what would the consenquences have been had andrew made
- land fall 200 miles to the north?
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- What kind of damage would the cape have sustained?
- I'm guessing the pad would have made it through alright,
- but what about the VAB, OPF, and other important buildings.
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- I believe Endeavour was stacked in the VAB awaiting a roll out.
- Another orbiter was in the OPF. Atlantis was in CA I believe.
- Where was the fourth?
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- What was the possibility of one of the structures failing
- thereby causing a possible loss of an orbiter?
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- Say for the sake of argument, the cape got toasted.
- 1 orbiter destroyed, one flooded (destroyed ?), and one repairable within six months,
- and one unscathed. VAB with extensive damage, launch control (with all
- its glass windows smashed, (whew not a pretty picture). Let's not
- forget the 18' storm surge. Would most of the bunkers be flooded?
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- Would this cripple the space program?
- I feel the set back would be much worse than the Challenger accident.
- What would be the potential loss of jobs in the space industry.
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- Imagine the bill to rebuild a toasted cape.
- 20 billion looks like pocket change.
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