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From: alan@adept.UUCP (Alan Ruffer)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Columbia showing her age?
Message-ID: <348@adept.UUCP>
Date: 18 Dec 90 03:44:45 GMT
References: <20792.2765fbdf@merrimack.edu> <51161@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <51218@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
Reply-To: alan@adept.UUCP (Alan Ruffer)
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In article <51218@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v071pzp4@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu writes:
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>>that the media will call it a NASA setback, because Astro was European.
>>                                                              ^^^^^^^^
>
>I did it again. Astro is American. Because of this enlightnment, I'd like
>to change my opinion:

Wasn't the IPS from the ESA?  I seem to recall star tracker problems with
the IPS.

>It wasn't a setback, but only beacause NASA got lucky being able to run
>it from the ground. The mission went much better than I anticipated after
>hearing about the second computer failure.

I don't think luck was a factor.  This is a good example of how manned
flights have the ability to salvage things with ingenuity and teamwork.
Who made the VDUs that failed anyone know?

>BTW --  I meant no ill intent toward the European Program. 

Me either, but didn't they construct the solar arrays with the movement
problems for Hubble?    8-)


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