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From: rcj@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Robert Johnson)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Discovery:  Go for throttle up!
Keywords: IT'S UP!!!
Message-ID: <5680@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 30 Sep 88 02:09:13 GMT
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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Control:   Discovery, you are go for 104% throttle up.
Discovery:   Roger, go at 104% throttle up.

      <<SIGH OF RELEIF>>

Well, as everyone knows now, we back in buisness!!!

Just a few notes though:

    1)  What the hell was that just of fire coming from the side of the
        SRB?  (The starboard one, I believe...)  Someone else mentioned it
        a few messages back, and I never heard any commentators mention 
        anything about it, nor anything about it in the press conferences..?

    2)  Could someone elaborate on the problems that they are having with the
        cooling system?

    3)  What was the problem that they were going to hold the countdown at 
        T-31 seconds for?  They decided to forget about it, but what caused 
        it?

And a forth, and final note:  Did you see that the Russians decided to let
the press at some pictures of thier shuttle?  Looks one hell of alot like
ours.  I noticed that it was on the pad, too...When are they launching, and 
who will be flying?  I know that the pilot kicked the bucket a few months
ago....

Acctually, one more thing just came to mind:  Does the agreement by the 
Allies acctually mean that Freedom might go up?  When will work comence,
and why the hell did they sign something which says that the Shuttle will
be the only thing used?  Why not use a combination of Arians, the Japanese
launcher, and the Shuttle?  It would be a hell of a lot faster that way...

       --Robert

P.S. Could someone post a revised timetable of NASA select, please?