[FPSPACE] Endeavour to land Tuesday -- first ever mission shortened by weather?

Chris Jones clj at panix.com
Sun Aug 19 00:41:26 EDT 2007


Jim Oberg wrote:
> So -- home we come....
> 
> I can't think of any earlier human space mission that
> was called home early on account of forecast bad weather --
> what am I overlooking?

There's Gemini 5, brought home 1 orbit early (hey, that's almost an hour
and a half!) because of bad weather in the primary landing site.  It may
have even been a hurricane as well.


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