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From: fisher@moon.dec.com
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Two Shuttles at Once???
Message-ID: <1459@hiatus.dec.com>
Date: 13 Sep 89 21:29:07 GMT
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In article <1726@cfa237.cfa250.harvard.edu>, mcdowell@cfa250.harvard.edu
(Jonathan McDowell) writes:
 
> 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.

Oops.  You caught a slight failure of logic.  What I *really* *really* know
is that there has been no interleaving of pads.  The first 24 were on pad a,
the last n have all been on b.  In thinking about it 61C and 51L were
so close together that it makes sense that they were on the pad at the
same time.  Thanks for correcting me.

Glad to hear that a is being reactivated.


Burns Fisher