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From: alb@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Orbit Lowered -- New Landing Time
Message-ID: <2181@alice.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2-Sep-83 07:22:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: alice.2181
Posted: Fri Sep  2 07:22:50 1983
Date-Received: Fri, 2-Sep-83 22:05:04 EDT
Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill
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Truly yesterday fired the orbiting maneuvering engines to lower
the Challenger's orbit from 193 to 139 miles.  The planned lowering
is to allow the shuttle to pass through a dense layer of atomic
oxygen particles to see how they will erode several samples of
different surfaces, from paint to telescope lenses, that will be
used in future flights.

I erroneously reported the landing time of the shuttle as 0340 EDT
on the 5th.  It will be at 0323 EDT.