Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: NASA slips the Space Telescope again
Message-ID: <1989May15.044314.25677@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <25365@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <1537@cfa237.cfa250.harvard.edu>
Date: Mon, 15 May 89 04:43:14 GMT

In article <1537@cfa237.cfa250.harvard.edu> mcdowell@cfa250.harvard.edu (Jonathan McDowell) writes:
>... Are all these DoD missions *really* so important to national security that
>they should jump the queue ahead of Space Telescope?

DoD thinks so, and they unfortunately have final say on the matter -- in
a crunch, they can even overrule NASA on payload scheduling.
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