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From: leech@homer.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech)
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Subject: Re: LLNL Astronaut Delivery
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Date: 9 Nov 90 18:25:25 GMT
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In article <2688@polari.UUCP> crad@polari.UUCP (Charles Radley) writes:
>+Freedom FEL comes up there will be TWENTY flights ahead of you. Is
>+Freedom going to tell those people to take a hike?
>-
>It is similar to a planetary mission with fixed launch windows,
>Ulysses and  Galileo got up on schedule, and other flights worked
>around them.

    I expect Fred will be as 'on schedule' as Galileo - first planned
for launch in 1982, slipped to the end of the decade due almost
entirely to shuttle-related problems including lack of suitable
shuttle-qualified upper stages and 3 years of downtime.
--
    Jon Leech (leech@cs.unc.edu)    __@/
    ``Scientific progress goes "Boink"?'' - Hobbes