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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
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Subject: Re: Shuttle Challenger Explosion?
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Date: Wed, 5-Feb-86 18:18:31 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  5 18:18:31 1986
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In article <661@tekigm.UUCP> timothym@tekigm.UUCP (Timothy D Margeson) writes:
>Hi,
>
>To anyone  in  a position  to  answer the  following questions, I
>request your assistance.
>
>I  have  a question  concerning the Challenger's last  payload. I
>have heard from an uncertain source that the Hubble telescope was
>aboard. Is this true? If so, why no mention of this great loss?

        False, it did have the only device the US was sending up to
view Halley's Comet though. So that is the end of *that*.
>
>Second, the latest video tape images of the shuttles right engine
>show what appears to be fire  (flame)  coming from above the main
>nozzle,  about where you would expect to see the  nozzle join the
>booster body. Is this a correct assumption?

        Actually, I think it was a little higher up than that.
>
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                                Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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