Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!rutgers!njin!princeton!idacrd!mac
From: mac@idacrd.UUCP (Robert McGwier)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Launch Advisory for 12/18/89 (Forwarded)
Message-ID: <542@idacrd.UUCP>
Date: 19 Dec 89 16:57:38 GMT
References: <38442@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
Organization: idacrd, princeton, nj
Lines: 26

From article <38442@ames.arc.nasa.gov>, by yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee):
> 
> NASA LAUNCH ADVISORY
> 
>      NASA managers today decided to postpone the STS-32 launch 
> until the second week of January, with the earliest possible date 
> January 8.  Two significant factors in the decision were the 
> 
>      Crippen said the delay will not impact NASA's ability to 
> safely retrieve the  Long Duration Exposure Facility, and he 
>


Sounds an awful lot like famous last words to me.  If the thing is tumbling
just a small amount, the arm cannot retrieve it as the thing would torque
the arm right out of its mounts.  I am gonna be one unhappy space cadet
if we lose all that data on the effect of atomic oxygen and other nasties
in near earth orbit.

Bob
 
-- 
____________________________________________________________________________
    My opinions are my own no matter	|	Robert W. McGwier, N4HY
    who I work for! ;-)			|	CCR, AMSAT, etc.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------