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From: petej@phred.UUCP (Pete Jarvis)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Space muzak (Mission Status Report  #12)
Message-ID: <2520@phred.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 89 14:28:51 GMT
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In article <18927@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante) writes:
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>I AM objecting to the media treatment of this (and other missions), which
>emphasizes such things and downplays or ignores activities that have
>
>report that THEY heard it.  I'd rather have heard about what science they
>were doing that day.  (They DID do some, didn't they?  Or some
>engineering, maybe?)

They had quite a bit of news concerning the experiments they were running!
If you had watched CNN, you would have seen several stories during the
mission about success of the TDRS sat. and the chicken eggs, etc. You seem
to think that all that was left out of the reporting. It wasn't. They also
reported on experiments that were not running as well as expected as well
as the hydrogen tank valve problem which they cleared up.

Peter Jarvis...........