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From: brahms@spp3.UUCP (Bradley S. Brahms)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Delay in Space Telescope
Message-ID: <248@spp3.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 13-Jan-86 18:21:21 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 13 18:21:21 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 17-Jan-86 01:18:05 EST
References: <808@mit-eddie.UUCP> <743@tpvax.fluke.UUCP> <440@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Reply-To: brahms@spp3.UUCP (Bradley S. Brahms)
Organization: TRW, Redondo Beach  CA
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Keywords: space telescope, delay, launch

In article <440@ssc-vax.UUCP> eder@ssc-vax.UUCP (Dani Eder) writes:
>From "Space Transportation System Space Shuttle Payload Flight Assignments"
>November 1985 edition.  STS Customer Services, Mail Code MC, NASA
>Headquarters, Washington, D.C. 20546. Telephone (202)453-2347.
>Chester M. Lee, Director.

>Launch         Orbiter         Crew/Days       Payload(s)

>18 Aug 86      Atlantis        5/5             Hubble Space Telescope

I have recently heard that the Space Telescope launch has been delayed
again.  I was told that the telescope was not going to be at KSC until a
month before the current launch schedule.  NASA does not feel that a month
is a long enough time to check out the telescope after its 3 month (?) ocean
voyage from California.  I was told that the launch is now set for
sometime in October.

The Space Telescope, like the Shuttle delays (in delivery) is what happens
when the government gets into the act and reduces the budget.  Sigh!

                        -- Brad Brahms
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