Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Launch at last!
Message-ID: <1990Mar2.164955.279@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <598@intelisc.nosun.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 90 16:49:55 GMT

In article <598@intelisc.nosun.UUCP> snidely@isc.intel.com (David Schneider) writes:
>CNN also had a quiz about which shuttle flight held the record for
>launch delays; I missed the answer, so I look forward to seeing your...

The obvious two candidates are (a) STS-1, and (b) STS-26, respectively
the first shuttle flight (years behind schedule) and the first post-Challenger
flight (ditto).  However, that's probably not what CNN meant...

>Also, does anyone still know the record for non-shuttle manned flight
>launch delays?

Probably Apollo 7 (18 months after original schedule for first manned
Apollo flight), but again that's stretching the question a bit...  The
"normal" delay record is probably held by Gemini 6, as others have
commented.
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