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From: phil@rice.edu (William LeFebvre)
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Subject: How Hubble will get there
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Date: 24 May 89 15:00:01 GMT
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[ Excuse the cross-posting, please. ]

Here's something I found out yesterday.  Currently, the Hubble Space
Telescope is being stored in California.  Everyone knows that it is going
to be launched (some day) on a shuttle from the Cape (Florida east coast).
But apparently, the only safe way to transport it is by boat.  Which means
it will almost certainly have to go thru the Panama canal.........Let's
hope things improve down that way in the next year.    Sigh.

			William LeFebvre
			Department of Computer Science
			Rice University
			<phil@Rice.edu>