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From: steve@caen.engin.umich.edu (Steve E Zoran)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Shuttle Schedule Changes
Message-ID: <486385d2.901b@dude.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 1 Feb 90 05:00:00 GMT
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From article <2780@hcx1.SSD.CSD.HARRIS.COM>, by fcs@hardy.hdw.csd.harris.com (Fred Sabernick):
> (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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