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Subject: Shuttle Delay
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Date: 2 Feb 89 17:09:00 GMT
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Nf-From: tippy.uucp!fireman    Feb  2 12:09:00 1989


From USA Today - Thursday, February 2, 1989

           SHUTTLE REPAIRS DELAY FIRST MISSION OF '89

  "Three engine pumps on the space shuttle Discovery must be replaced -
delaying the first shuttle mission of 1989 until at least mid-March,
NASA said Wednesday.  The launch, originally scheduled for Feb. 23,
must occur by March 18 so as not to delay a high-priority Venus
probe mission by the shuttle Atlantis in mid-April [Magellan  STS-30].
Replacement pumps were ordered after engineers studied cracks in a pump
on Atlantis during its mission in December."