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From: rb5d+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert Bates)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Shuttle Crew Seats
Message-ID: <wZQjNdy00WBKQ0oJB9@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 28 Nov 89 21:19:37 GMT
Organization: School of Urban and Public Affairs, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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From: yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) :
>                KSC SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT - TUESDAY, NOV. 21, 1989
>                STS-33 - (OV 103) - PAD 39-B - LAUNCH MINUS ONE DAY
>
>              Today, the orbiter's communications system will be
>         activated, the navigation systems will be tested and the flight
>         crew seats will be installed in the flight and mid decks.

Why do they wait until one day before launch to install seats?  Why aren't
they attached more or less permanently like flight crew seats in aircraft?

--RC Bates
  RB5d@Andrew.CMU.Edu