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From: gsh7w@astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy)
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Subject: Re: Shuttle & Galileo
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Date: 7 Dec 90 23:32:52 GMT
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In article <544@ub.d.umn.edu> jbovitz@ub.d.umn.edu (Jeffrey Bovitz) writes:
#When Galileo does it's Earth fly-by on 8 December, will the Shuttle be
#able to see it?  I'm assuming the Shuttle will be up on that day, but 
#if it isn't, don't flame me, OK?  Thanx!   (-:

About 30 minutes ago, the science planners were asked that if it were
possible, they would like the shuttle to be in a certain attitude so
the astronauts would be able to try to look for Galileo with
binoculars. They did see the Soviet flight the other day.


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