From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhtsa!alice!alb
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Title: TDRS-2 Yanked from STS-8 Manifest
Article-I.D.: alice.1802
Posted: Wed May  4 23:21:41 1983
Received: Thu May  5 04:08:03 1983

TDRS-2, originally scheduled to be launched from STS-8, now
scheduled to launch in August, has been removed from that
flight's manifest, because NASA has as yet failed to figure
out why the IUS that was attached to TDRS-1 malfunctioned,
sending the satellite into an errant orbit.  The loss of
TDRS-2 will hamper STS-9's cargo, Spacelab, in that the
Spacelab planners had relied on the two satellites to
provide a continuous source of transmission to the Earth.