Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wasatch!ch-tkr
From: ch-tkr@wasatch.UUCP (Timothy K Reynolds)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: View of Discovery Launch
Summary: Re: View of discovery launch
Keywords: Discovery Launch
Message-ID: <1334@wasatch.UUCP>
Date: 15 Mar 89 00:42:19 GMT
References: <690@ablnc.ATT.COM>
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
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In article <690@ablnc.ATT.COM>, rcpilz@ablnc.ATT.COM (Robert C. Pilz) writes:
>                     The sun burned off the fog and low lying clouds
> which caused the delay from 8:07AM. There was a concern about possible
> wind. (If there were any wind there would not have been any fog, you
> figure?) At approx 35 miles due West (our location in Maitland FL)
> there was no detectable wind at all. The lakes were as still as
> glass. 

Yes there may be no wind at the surface, but what concerns NASA
*especially* in the post-Challenger era is high altitude winds.  The
existence of high crosswinds at high altitude were a possible contributing
factor to the loss of the Challenger.

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