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From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
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Subject: Re: Future Space Missions
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Date: 13 Nov 89 19:47:10 GMT
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In article <20862@ut-emx.UUCP> anita@ut-emx.UUCP (Anita Cochran) writes:
>Galileo would have been fine with a shuttle launch as originally planned.
>However, when the Challenger blew, it was decided that the IUS was
>potentially too dangerous.  Thus, they went to the Centaur.  

Just the reverse -- Centaur yielded to the less powerful IUS. (Let's
see if we can go for a repetitive-followups record on this one...)

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I'm a Leo.  Leos don't believe    *  *  *     Tom Neff
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