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From: yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Launch Advisory for 10/11/89 (Forwarded)
Message-ID: <33410@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
Date: 11 Oct 89 21:57:53 GMT
Reply-To: yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
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Sarah Keegan
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.                   October 11, 1989


LAUNCH ADVISORY:  STS-34 MISSION


     NASA officials today evaluated the work that will remain 
after changing out the number 2 main engine controller to prepare 
the Atlantis for its next flight.  They have estimated there is a 
fifty-fifty chance of completing the necessary work in time to 
launch on Tuesday, Oct. 17.

     Shuttle engineers and technicians will work towards an 
objective of launch on Tuesday, but managers will make a final 
decision at about noon on Saturday, Oct. 14, as to whether a 
Tuesday launch is achievable or whether the launch will occur on 
Wednesday, Oct. 18.