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From: goletz@netcom.UUCP (Eddie Goletz)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Unofficial Space Shuttle Launch Manifest
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Date: 19 Nov 90 05:11:00 GMT
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>>STS     Date     Orbiter    Payload
>>------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>> 35  12 Dec. 90  Columbia   ASTRO-1, BBXRT-1 (Broad Band X-Ray Telescope)
>>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 39   1 Feb. 91  Discovery  CIRRIS (AFP-675), IBSS, STP-1
>> 44   4 Mar. 91  Atlantis   DSP (DoD early warning satellite)
>
>Are you sure about this one? Oh, I guess it just won't be "classified." Dan the
>Man and the evening news media was hyping how yesterday Atlantis launch was 
>the last DoD flight, and Defense was finished with the Shuttle.

STS-38 is the last "secure" DoD flight.  JSC needs some room for their
space station control room and they can't afford the upkeep on the secure
control room (I think I heard a number of $60 million a year, but that was
just a rumor.)  They asked the DoD if they would pay for the upkeep.  They said
no.  Therefore, the secure control room will be ripped out after this flight
and replaced with a space station control room.  There will be more DoD
flights, they just wont be "secure."  An example would be STS-44.  This used
to be a very secret hush hush DoD flight.  However, because the secure control
room wont be there, most of that mission became unclassified a few months
ago.

By the way, I think STS-44 is now in July and STS-43 is now in August, or is
that vice versa?  I don't have the dates in front of me at the moment.

Eddie Goletz
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