Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Are launches really running as smoothly as they seem?
Message-ID: <1990Jan11.195201.4981@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <34337@mips.mips.COM>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 90 19:52:01 GMT

In article <34337@mips.mips.COM> greg@rapid.Berkeley.EDU (Greg Shippen) writes:
>I heard on the news yesterday that the shuttle lauch went "nearly
>flawlessly"...

Well, after delays totalling nearly a month...  although one can make a
case for at least some of that being one-time teething troubles of getting
pad 39A back into operation.
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1972: Saturn V #15 flight-ready|     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
1990: birds nesting in engines | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu