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From: mcdowell@cfa250.harvard.edu (Jonathan McDowell)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Two Shuttles at Once???
Message-ID: <1726@cfa237.cfa250.harvard.edu>
Date: 13 Sep 89 13:08:18 GMT
References: <1455@hiatus.dec.com>
Organization: Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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From article <1455@hiatus.dec.com>, by fisher@moon.dec.com:
> What I DO know is that they have never used both pads in parallel.  

Sorry! 51L/Challenger was already on 39B when 61C/Columbia left for
orbit from 39A. So there were two on-pad shuttles at once. STS-32 is
due to use 39A, and might well be on the pad at the same time as
STS-33 is on 39B. However, the news story was confused to the extent
that the two shuttles will be on different missions.

Jonathan.