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From: rjnoe@ihlts.UUCP (Roger Noe)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Discovery liftoff time changed
Message-ID: <608@ihlts.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 6-Nov-84 09:34:41 EST
Article-I.D.: ihlts.608
Posted: Tue Nov  6 09:34:41 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 7-Nov-84 08:13:44 EST
Organization: Starfleet Headquarters
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NASA has changed the time shuttle Discovery is to lift off tomorrow (Nov. 7)
to 8:22 a.m. EST, four minutes later than previously announced.

The next flight of Challenger, which had been set for December 8, has been
postponed indefinitely because of the need to replace almost 10 percent of
its over 30 thousand thermal tiles.  A bonding/filler compound was found to
have softened, because of the actions of a waterproofing compound used
on the tiles and/or repeated heating from reentry.  Discovery does not now
have the same problem.  Challenger's mission was to have been a secret
Defense Department mission, but it was known that the payload would use
an Inertial Upper Stage to achieve geosynchronous orbital altitude.
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Roger Noe			ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe