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From: mcdowell@cfa250.harvard.edu (Jonathan McDowell)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: NASA slips the Space Telescope again
Message-ID: <1537@cfa237.cfa250.harvard.edu>
Date: 13 May 89 16:30:18 GMT
References: <25365@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
Organization: Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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From article <25365@ames.arc.nasa.gov>, by yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee):
> NASA ANNOUNCES UPCOMING SHUTTLE FLIGHT SEQUENCE

Note that this announcement quietly slips HST back past the STS 36 military mission
again. Are all these DoD missions *really* so important to national security that
they should jump the queue ahead of Space Telescope?


Here is the current schedule for the next year, with crews: 
(sorry about the wide lines)
	
1989
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Aug	STS 28	Columbia   Shaw Richards Leestma Adamson Brown			DoD
Oct 12	STS 34	Atlantis   Williams McCulley Lucid Baker Chang-Diaz		Galileo
Nov?	STS 33	Discovery  Gregory Griggs Musgrave Thornton(K) Carter		DoD
Dec?	STS 32	Columbia   Brandenstein Wetherbee Dunbar Low Ivins		LDEF-1R/Syn

1990 (Old manifest dates)
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(Feb 1)	STS 36	Atlantis   Creighton Casper Hilmers Mullane Thout		DoD
(Dec)	STS 31	Discovery  Shriver Bolden Hawley McCandless Sullivan		HST
(Mar 1)	STS 35	Columbia   Brand Gardner Lounge Hoffmann Parker Parise Durrance	Astro 1
(Apr 5)	STS 37	Discovery  Nagel Cameron Ross Apt Godwin			GRO
May 10	STS 38	Atlantis   Covey Culbertson Springer Meade Gemar		DoD
Jun  7	STS 40	Columbia   O'Connor Blaha Seddon Bagian Jernigan Gaffney Phillips SLS 1
Jul 19	STS 39	Discovery  CDR   PLT  Bluford Hieb Veach  MSE?			STP
Oct  5	STS 41	Atlantis   CDR   PLT  MS-1    MS-2   MS-3			Ulysses
Nov  1	STS 42	Columbia   CDR   PLT  MS-1    MS-2   MS-3   MSE-1  MSE-2	Starlab