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From: ccoprmd@prism.gatech.EDU (Matthew DeLuca)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Two Shuttles at Once???
Message-ID: <1770@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 9 Sep 89 16:09:22 GMT
References: <3330022@hpindda.HP.COM> <12154@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Reply-To: ccoprmd@prism.gatech.EDU (Matthew DeLuca)
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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In article <12154@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> smb@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Steven M. Bellovin) writes:

>There are not sufficient facilities, I believe, to actually launch two
>within a few days of each other, as was done once during Gemini days,
>but a lot of the preparation can be overlapped.

Well, I was reading the January '86 issue of Astronomy several years ago, and
it had a list of the next dozen launches (The Challenger accident didn't make 
it into print for this issue...) of the shuttle that were planned.  If memory
serves, they were either going to have two shuttles in orbit at once, or were
going to have one shuttle launched the day after another had landed...they 
only gave launch dates, not landing dates.  Of course, things have probably 
changed...

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