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From: jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu (Jeffrey W Percival)
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: How Hubble will get there
Message-ID: <188@larry.sal.wisc.edu>
Date: 24 May 89 17:30:43 GMT
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Reply-To: jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu.UUCP (Jeffrey W Percival)
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In article <3313@kalliope.rice.edu> phil@rice.edu () writes:
>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.








The boat plan has been changed.  It was going to go by the "Greenwave",
a Navy ship.  Now it's going by air (some reject C5, I hear).
-- 
Jeff Percival (jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu)