Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!amdcad!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!mangoe
From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
Newsgroups: net.space,net.columbia
Subject: The Lost Payloads
Message-ID: <3102@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Feb-86 14:33:37 EST
Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.3102
Posted: Fri Feb  7 14:33:37 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 11-Feb-86 03:55:33 EST
References: <661@tekigm.UUCP> <998@psivax.UUCP>
Distribution: net
Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD
Lines: 18
Xref: watmath net.space:5712 net.columbia:2209

In article <998@psivax.UUCP> friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) writes:

>>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*.

Actually, I don't think that's true either.  What was lost was some sort of
UV 'scope.  The Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (known also as HUT-- it is
accompanied by T-shirts showing a certain Star Wars character lounging in
the cargo bay) was, if I remember this correctly, not scheduled to fly until
March, when *it* would look at Halley (among other things).  I don't think
it wat the payload that was lost.  In any case, it cannot be adapted to fly
in anything but the shuttle, so it goes on the shelf for a while.

C. Wingate