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- From: jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Josh 'K' Hopkins)
- Subject: Re: hurricane andrew
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- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 00:39:44 GMT
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- pettengi@ial3.jsc.nasa.gov (James B. Pettengill) writes:
-
- >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?
-
- >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.
-
- I know for a fact that the newest Titan complex is designed to be hurricane
- proof. My guess is that most of the other buildings would survive as well.
-
- >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?
-
- >Would this cripple the space program?
-
- Well, you've just hypothetically destroyed half the orbiters and left the other
- half damaged and without facilities. I think "cripple" might describe the
- situation accurately.
-
- >Imagine the bill to rebuild a toasted cape.
- >20 billion looks like pocket change.
-
- Actually, you could do it for much less than that, valuing new orbiters at 2
- billion a piece and remebering that launch complexes aren't that expensive.
- Besides, any natural disaster that does that much damage to KSC is going to
- cause incredible damage to the rest of Florida. KSC probably wouldn't even
- be the biggest expense.
-
-
-
- >
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