Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Two Shuttles at Once???
Message-ID: <1989Sep10.035811.27797@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <3330022@hpindda.HP.COM> <12154@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <1770@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1989Sep9.220015.19178@utzoo.uucp> <1989Sep10.005129.6223@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 89 03:58:11 GMT

In article <1989Sep10.005129.6223@cs.rochester.edu> yamauchi@cs.rochester.edu.UUCP (Brian Yamauchi) writes:
>>Probably the latter, and probably that was in early summer 1986.  The
>>schedule then was very tight because both Galileo and Ulysses were going
>>to go into the same launch window for Jupiter.  That plan got changed...
>
>Why didn't they use this setup to launch both Galileo and Magellan
>into the prime Venus launch window?

Because NASA is no longer at all happy about crowding the schedule like that.
(They weren't terribly happy about it then, actually, but now it is utterly
unacceptable.)
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