Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!titan!phil From: phil@titan.rice.edu (William LeFebvre) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Atlantis misses by a hair Message-ID: <3223@kalliope.rice.edu> Date: 4 May 89 21:46:59 GMT References: <4361@omepd.UUCP> <4260012@hpctdke.HP.COM> Sender: usenet@rice.edu Reply-To: phil@Rice.edu (William LeFebvre) Organization: Rice University, Houston Lines: 19 In article <4260012@hpctdke.HP.COM> rbk@hpctdke.HP.COM (Richard Katz) writes: >-/ hpctdke:sci.space.shuttle / snidely@inteloa.intel.com (David P. Schneider) / 3:01 pm May 1, 1989 / >-At least one account I heard was that this was a very smooth countdown up > ********************** >-until T - 31 seconds... >I don't have the paper in front of me but it didn't seem that smooth. >Perhaps it was _relatively_ smooth - :-) It was exceptionally smooth until the last few hours. There were no unexpected problems and no reasons at all to extend any of the planned holds. In fact, there wasn't even a threat of extending any of those holds, until those things that you mentioned started happening. That was all within the last hour or so of the countdown. William LeFebvre Department of Computer Science Rice University