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Wed Nov  4 04:21:28 1981
SPACE Digest V2 #27
>From OTA@S1-A Wed Nov  4 04:09:11 1981

SPACE Digest                                      Volume 2 : Issue 27

Today's Topics:
			  Shuttle tiles, camera
				Correction
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Date: 3 November 1981 21:58-EST
From: Robert Elton Maas <REM at MIT-MC>
Subject: Shuttle tiles, camera
To: SPACE at MIT-MC

This flight of the Columbia we won't have to worry about the tiles
like we did the first flight. There's a camera on the boom that
maneuvers payloads into position, and it can simply maneuver itself
around to look at the underside of the shuttle with the camera.
Thus EVA is needed only if a problem is actually found, not to just take
a close look at potential problems.  (Recall, last flight in April, the
only pictures of the underside of the shuttle were from a secret ground-
based military spy camera, which I would think would be inferior to
on-site inspection by the boom camera.)

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Date:  3 Nov 1981 2254-PST
From: Imsss at SUMEX-AIM
Subject: Correction
To:   SPACE at MIT-MC

(This is actually REM -- MIT-* and SU-AI are all down.)
Correction, the pictures of underside of shuttle in April were
from a secret spy satellite, not a ground-based camera.
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