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Topic: T-38s at Shuttle Landing Facility during a mission
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dabolton
Member Posts: 419
From: Seneca, IL, US
Registered: Jan 2009
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posted 02-21-2011 01:46 PM
  
After the astronauts arrive for launch at Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility in their T-38s, do the jets remain there throughout the shuttle flight or does someone ferry them over to Patrick Air Force Base? |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 02-21-2011 02:07 PM
Since post-flight the shuttle crew returns to Houston in a Gulfstream, the T-38s are flown back to Ellington Field by other astronauts well before the mission is over. |
dabolton
Member Posts: 419
From: Seneca, IL, US
Registered: Jan 2009
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posted 02-21-2011 02:10 PM
Thanks. I wondered if they were removed before the flight in case of an RTLS. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 02-21-2011 02:30 PM
At the Shuttle Landing Facility, the parking area for the T-38s, Gulfstream and other aircraft is off the runway (near the mate/demate device) and therefore would have little, if any impact if the shuttle needed to make an emergency return. |
Blackarrow
Member Posts: 3120
From: Belfast, United Kingdom
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 02-21-2011 05:59 PM
Off on a bit of a tangent, but does anyone have any photos of any Apollo astronauts standing beside NASA T-38 tail-number 924? A bit of a longshot, but perhaps somewhere in Story Musgrave's book on the T-38? |
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