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From: fcs@hardy.hdw.csd.harris.com (Fred Sabernick)
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Subject: Shuttle Schedule Changes
Summary: Dropped one DOD this year
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Date: 31 Jan 90 14:04:56 GMT
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(Reprinted without permission from the Associated Press)

NASA announced Monday it is shuffling its space shuttle launch schedule,
reducing from 10 to 9 the # of flights this year and aiming for 12 flights
in 1992 and 13 in 1993.

The new schedule reflects a delay in two of the first three missions and a
shifting of some flight priorities.

The dropped 1990 flight, that of a SDI payload, was put off nearly 14 months
until January 1992. No specific reason was given for the long delay.

The space agency's new long-range schedule calls for 8 flights in 1991,
12 in 1992, 13 in 1993, 11 in 1994, 11 in 1995, and 10 in 1996.

Delays in the LDEF and HST flights apparently prompted the change.

	The new manifest for Space Shuttles for the rest of 1990

	       02/22/90 Atlantis (STS-36) DOD payload that is reportedly an
	                                  advanced reconnaissance satellite.

	       04/18/90 Discovery (STS-31) Hubble Space Telescope.

	       05/09/90 Columbia (STS-35) with an Astronomy Laboratory.

	       07/08/90 Atlantis (STS-38) with DOD payload.

	       08/29/90 Columbia (STS-40) with Space Life Sciences Laboratory.

	       10/05/90 Discovery (STS-XX) with the Ulysses spacecraft to study
	                                   the sun.

	       11/01/90 Atlantis (STS-37) with the Gamma Ray Observatory to
	                                  study deep space.

	       12/12/90 Columbia (STS-42) with the International Microgravity
	                                  Laboratory.


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