Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Galileo and Ulysses
Message-ID: <1990Oct1.155057.17515@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <4748@crash.cts.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 90 15:50:57 GMT

In article <4748@crash.cts.com> gandalf@pro-canaveral.cts.com (Ken Hollis) writes:
>Challenger was launched late in January, and G+U were going into the
>Jupiter launch window around the beginning of June.  There were several
>intervening flights scheduled.
> 
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> 
>Yes, you are correct.  There were some interveaning flights between Galileo &
>Ulysses (as there has been currently) ...

Uh, no, sorry again.  Galileo and Ulysses were going up in fast succession,
since under the old plan they both went into the same Jupiter launch window.
In fact, there were some concerns about whether two launches could be
mounted so close together, especially with the extra work needed for the
Centaurs.  There definitely weren't any launches between them.  However,
there were launches scheduled after the ill-fated Challenger mission
but before G+U.  "The very next flight would have been carrying plutonium"
is pure hysterical propaganda.
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