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From: gandalf@pro-electric.cts.com (Ken Hollis)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Shuttle classified flights...
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Date: 2 Mar 91 11:16:21 GMT
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Greetings and Salutations:

From: cornutt@freedom.msfc.nasa.gov (David Cornutt)
>>There are no further "Classified" per se payloads planned for the SST.

>Not quite true.  There is a classified payload on STS-39, but the flight
>itself is not classified.  There will be (unclassified) DOD flights in
>the future, and there will probably still be the occasional self-
>contained classified payload. 

Exactly.  That is what I meant by "per se".  While there may be portions of
the flight classified, there are no more "Totally Classified" launches
planned.

From: cornutt@freedom.msfc.nasa.gov (David Cornutt)
Subject: Re: Fuel-line door questions...

>I don't know if the onboard systems will indicate the status of the door,
>but the MCC certainly can tell.  Having them not closed is not
>necessarily fatal.  I'll have to go look up the procedure for that.

It has been said that if the doors do not close within 1/1000", there will
be a "Major Malfunction".  By the way, "MCC"? Please define.

Ken Hollis
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