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From: tjc@castle.ed.ac.uk (A J Cunningham)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Recovering HST from orbit
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Date: 8 Feb 91 11:05:09 GMT
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In article <1991Feb6.214941.316@abode.wciu.edu> eric@abode.wciu.edu (Eric C. Bennett) writes:

>some damage to the HST during re-entry and landing. Also, since the HST is
>so large, they would have to dedicate an entire shuttle mission to putting
>it back into orbit. If they just go up there and fix it, they could also
>do other shuttle expirements, launches, etc.

	What's to stop them doing a launch and then recovering HST? Just
curious.
	Tony



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