Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: NASA Payload Manifest
Message-ID: <1990Feb1.170945.15599@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <3315@iitmax.IIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 90 17:09:45 GMT

In article <3315@iitmax.IIT.EDU> demodmb@iitmax.iit.edu (Dean M. Bleess) writes:
>     Second, has anyone noticed the lack of missions for Columbia between
>  mission 45 (4-4-91) and mission 53 (3-5-92) ??   Are they planning to do
>  an overhaul on her during this time finally or what ?? ...
>  ...mission 53 looks like it will be the longest mission yet (13 days) and
>  they'll want it in top shape to prevent problems.

Actually, most likely that is downtime for the long-duration-orbiter mods.
Columbia is scheduled to get those at some point, and a big chunk of
downtime just before an unusually long mission sounds right.
-- 
1972: Saturn V #15 flight-ready|     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
1990: birds nesting in engines | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu