Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Two Shuttles at Once???
Message-ID: <1989Sep9.215734.19044@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <3330022@hpindda.HP.COM> <12154@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 89 21:57:34 GMT

In article <12154@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> smb@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Steven M. Bellovin) writes:
>... There are two launch pads; the second
>was completed (or rather, converted for the shuttle) around the time
>of the Challenger explosion...

In fact, flight 51L was the first shuttle use of pad 39B.  There were some
speculations about obscure mechanisms by which the choice of pad might have
contributed to the disaster, but nothing ever came of those.
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