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From: kaplow@pobox.enet.dec.com (Bob Kaplow)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle,sci.space
Subject: Re: back-up crews
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Date: 10 Apr 91 17:06:19 GMT
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In article <8025@eos.arc.nasa.gov>, brody@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Adam R. Brody) writes...
>Since they abolished back-up crews since STS 4, what is the plan if
>someone gets sick or for some reason cannont make the flight?  

    I wondered about this as well Friday night. After leaving KSC 
after the launch of STS-37, I went back to my motel room to follow the 
news, and heard that Manley Carter, scheduled for the last shuttle 
flight this year (STS-44?), had been killed in a plane crash along
with John Tower. I don't know what NASA does in this case, because I
guess it hadn't come up yet. I guess we will find out soon.

>How long before the flight do the crew go into quarantine to 
>prevent catching someone's cold or the flu? 

    One week. This I know for sure, because a friend of mine (Jay Apt)
is on the crew of STS-37. His wife held a reception on L-1, and told
us that he had been quarantined for a week before the flight. That
meant we couldn't see him off in person, and I probably won't get to
see him until this August. 

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