Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!orca!pooter!kendalla
From: kendalla@pooter.WV.TEK.COM (Kendall Auel;685-2425;61-028;;pooter)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Two Shuttles at Once???
Message-ID: <4491@orca.WV.TEK.COM>
Date: 9 Sep 89 04:42:11 GMT
References: <3330022@hpindda.HP.COM>
Sender: nobody@orca.WV.TEK.COM
Reply-To: kendalla@pooter.WV.TEK.COM (Kendall Auel)
Lines: 14

I heard a reference to the LDEF retrieval mission while listening
to Larry King's radio show.  He had as his guest a former director
of JPL.  A woman called up and wanted to know if the LDEF was so
big that they needed two shuttles to retrieve it.

The guest's comment was that it was placed in orbit by a shuttle,
so obviously one shuttle could also bring it back home.  He didn't
mention anything about (didn't know about?) preparing two shuttles
in case a backup was needed.

Kendall Auel                       |  kendalla@pooter.WV.TEK.COM
Tektronix, Inc.                    |  P.O. Box 1000, m/s 61-028
Visual Systems Group               |  Wilsonville, Oregon 97070
Interactive Technologies Division  |  (This message composed on a TEK w/s)