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Young, who urges that all future shuttle landings should be at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., says in his memo that the weather, runway surface and water surrounding the Kennedy Space Center all make the Florida site dangerous...
...astronaut, who has flown more shuttle missions than anyone, wrote the memo Jan. 6, six days before the launch of Columbia on the last successful shuttle mission and 22 days before Challenger exploded...
...report, ABC cited an internal National Aeronautics and Space Administration memo by Arnold Aldrich, manager of the shuttle project in Houston, that said an operator at Cape Canaveral inadvertently dumped 18,000 pounds of liquid oxygen from the shuttle's external fuel tank...
...flight was delayed for other reasons but the problem was not discovered until later, the memo said...
According to ABC, the memo said that if the shuttle had been launched, the engines could have quit before the craft entered orbit, leading to a possible emergency landing in Spain and "serious safety-offlight consequences...