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From: packer@chrpserv.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Packer)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Mate-Demate Facility
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Date: 12 Jan 90 13:18:08 GMT
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In article <920@xroads.UUCP> pubtendr@xroads.UUCP (Steve Roberson) writes:
>
>the 747 I don't know. I have some video disks from Space Archive, etc. and
>NONE of them have anything on this either.
>
>IS THIS A COVER-UP?
>-- 

At first I thought the media ignored this part of the mission
cycle becuase it contradicted the symbolism of the spacecraft
to show it dominated by a huge ugly structure like that, but
now I'd consider an alternate theory: that they don't show
the crane because it's a huge ugly structure, period.