Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!olivea!apple!uokmax!jabishop From: jabishop@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Jonathan A Bishop) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Shuttle Status for 04/22/91 (Forwarded) Message-ID: <1991Apr25.160427.1527@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> Date: 25 Apr 91 16:04:27 GMT References: <1991Apr22.234907.29805@news.arc.nasa.gov> <1991Apr23.133522.21767@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Apr24.163541.21584@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK Lines: 22 pjs@euclid.jpl.nasa.gov (Peter Scott) writes: [Discussion of planned holds] >I believe that there is also a second clock running during the >countdown that has holds figured into it, and therefore does not stop. >I heard them mentioning it during a launch sequence once, but I forget >what it was called. Above the center screen at Mission Control are several clocks. One is labeled "L-". When I last visited the control center in May, the countdown for Astro-1 was proceeding, and the "L-" and "T-" clocks were staggered appropriately. -------- jabishop@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu "I'm with you, LEM, though it's a shame that it had to be you. The mother ship is just a blip from your train made for two. I'm with you, boys, so please employ just a little extra care. It's on my mind, I'm left behind when I should have been there." --Jethro Tull, "For Michael Collins, Jeffrey, and Me"