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From: ins_aeas@jhunix.UUCP (Earle A .Sugar)
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Subject: Re: Shuttle Challenger Explosion?
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Date: Fri, 7-Feb-86 16:27:23 EST
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> 
> The Challenger's payload was a large NASA communications sattelite to
> be used when the shuttles were out of good range of ground based stations.
> The Hubble telescope was not on board, and had been scheduled in one of 
> the February or March flights.
Actually, the Space Telescope (whose command and data analysis center,
the Space Telescope Institute is here at JHU) was scheduled to go up
on the last launch in October of this year.  There was to be another
set of data collection devices set to go up on the first flight in March
of this year, which contains the Hopkins U.V. Telescope (HUT).  This is
probably what you were thinking of.
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Earle A. Sugar
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