From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #14601 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Saturday, August 31 2024 Volume 14 : Number 14601 Today's Subjects: ----------------- CONGRATULATIONS! You are the lucky online winner of a brand new Sweepstakes Starbucks Coffee Lovers Box Set entry! ["Starbucks Unlocked" Subject: CONGRATULATIONS! You are the lucky online winner of a brand new Sweepstakes Starbucks Coffee Lovers Box Set entry! CONGRATULATIONS! You are the lucky online winner of a brand new Sweepstakes Starbucks Coffee Lovers Box Set entry! http://serviceplus.sa.com/pgd-dvJhEy-A33BfyNtEcaOCR9-NLQUNKhJ2fV3EKh8awVuJ8w http://serviceplus.sa.com/ugRtxZPz9Fk24FdyJoA_RHdEBMJ_IA6Yhwlhro8DjYOL4Fkx-Q ce Shuttle was being designed, NASA received proposals for building alternative launch-and-landing sites at locations other than KSC, which demanded study. KSC had important advantages, including its existing facilities; location on the Intracoastal Waterway; and its southern latitude, which gives a velocity advantage to missions launched in easterly near-equatorial orbits. Disadvantages included: its inability to safely launch military missions into polar orbit, since spent boosters would be likely to fall on the Carolinas or Cuba; corrosion from the salt air; and frequent cloudy or stormy weather. Although building a new site at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico was seriously considered, NASA announced its decision in April 1972 to use KSC for the shuttle. Since the Shuttle could not be landed automatically or by remote control, the launch of Columbia on April 12, 1981 for its first orbital mission STS-1, was NASA's first crewed launch of a vehicle that had not been tested in prior uncrewed launches. In 1976, the VAB's south parking area was the site of Third Century America, a science and technology display commemorating the U.S. Bicentennial. Concurrent with this event, the U.S. flag was painted on the south side of the VAB. During the late 1970s, LC-39 was reconfigured to support the Space Shuttle. Two Orbiter Processing Facilities were built near the VAB as hangars with a third added in the 1980s. KSC's 2.9-mile (4.7 km) Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) was the orbiters' primary end-of-mission landing site, although the first KSC landing did not take place until the tenth flight, when Challenger completed STS-41-B on February 11, 1984; the primary landing site until then was Edwards Air Force Base in California, subsequently used as a bac ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #14601 ***********************************************