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From: thomas@mvac23.UUCP (Thomas Lapp)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: When does the official name change?
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Date: 27 Nov 89 03:07:15 GMT
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> I believe you are confused by the fact that the STS numbers are not being
> flown in stict numerical order.  STS-32 [LDEF retrieval] has NOT been flown
> yet, and in fact it will follow STS-33 [DoD mission].
>
Is the reason that the flight numbers are not sequential due to the fact
that the order of the manifest changed after it was originally planned?


                         - tom
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