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From: jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu (Jeffrey W Percival)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Hubble Space Telescope
Message-ID: <211@larry.sal.wisc.edu>
Date: 12 Jul 89 21:28:11 GMT
References: <351@aeras.UUCP> <2983@helios.ee.lbl.gov> <23692@prls.UUCP>
Reply-To: jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu.UUCP (Jeffrey W Percival)
Organization: Space Astronomy Lab, Madison, WI
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In article <23692@prls.UUCP> gordon@prls.UUCP (Gordon Vickers) writes:
>     I've heard that there will be an "open house" sometime after
>   the scope is rotated to the horizonal.


The HST has been lowered into the horizontal position at least once before,
for the thermal vacuum test.  At the beginning of the lowering process,
a clean room technician was asked how long it would take.  He is rumored
to have responded something like "Oh, 4 hours or 3 seconds."
-- 
Jeff Percival (jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu)