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From: rjnoe@ihuxx.UUCP (Roger Noe)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: STS-9 launch and Pravda announcement
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Date: Mon, 28-Nov-83 13:56:05 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 28 13:56:05 1983
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I saw CBS' coverage of the shuttle launch this morning.  Kathryn
Sullivan kept Morton Dean in line.  They interrupted rather late,
at about T-5 minutes or less (i.e. 1055 EST).  For once a network
anchor did not make a complete fool of himself.  I would've liked
to hear and see more of launch control operations, naturally, but
this was some of the better coverage I've seen a network have of
any shuttle launch after the first two.  The roll seemed quite fast,
I think perhaps they got their roll program finished in the same
time as other flights, even though it was farther.  I've forgotten,
which way does 39-A face?  I've got it on a map from my last visit,
but I don't know where I put it.  Oh, they had some pretty good aerial
views of the launch as well.  SRB sep was fairly clear, considering
the weather.  What a nominal launch!

Pravda today announced Soviet intentions to construct a permanently manned
orbiting space station.  No timetable was given for this.
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		Roger Noe		...ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe