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From: alb@alice.UUCP (Adam L. Buchsbaum)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Missions Combined -- Launch Date Set
Message-ID: <2919@alice.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Jul-84 20:37:56 EDT
Article-I.D.: alice.2919
Posted: Thu Jul 12 20:37:56 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Jul-84 04:56:28 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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NASA today announced that it will combine the aborted mission
and its successor into one flight of the Discovery.  That flight
is now scheduled to launch on 24 August.  On Saturday, the
shuttle is to be rolled back to the hangar so that two satellites
from the second mission can be loaded aboard.  The Star-48 nozzle
failure earlier this week was attributed to test conditions and
was ''probably not due to the nozzle itself,'' said a McDonnel-
Douglas statement.  Thus, the two satellites will fly; if it is
found that the nozzle was indeed at fault, they can always be
removed.  One Leasat satellite from mission 1, in addition to
the space solar panel and pharmaceutical experiments, will be
retained; a second Leasat satellite will be moved to the 1
October launch of the Challenger (beginning with the 1 October
launch, shuttle are scheduled to fly at least once a month.)
The crew for the combined mission will be the crew from mission
1, commanded by Henry Hartsfield; the crew from mission 2 will
be reassigned as soon as possible.