Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!ucsd!sdcc6!beowulf!rose From: rose@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Dan Rose) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Shuttle Status for 04/22/91 (Forwarded) Message-ID: Date: 23 Apr 91 03:20:14 GMT References: <1991Apr22.234907.29805@news.arc.nasa.gov> Sender: news@sdcc6.ucsd.edu Lines: 13 yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) writes: > The countdown clock entered the T-11 hour planned built-in > hold this morning at 4:45. The clock will continue to hold until > resuming the count at 4:45 p.m. today. This may be a naive question, but . . . Why do they have these planned countdown holds? Maybe "countdown" has a more specific meaning to NASA than it does to me, but it seems like there's no sense in starting a countdown until it's, well, time to count down. -- Dan Rose drose@ucsd.edu