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From: conor@wren.inmos.co.uk (Conor O'Neill)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Launch at last!
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Date: 2 Mar 90 12:17:47 GMT
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In article <598@intelisc.nosun.UUCP> snidely@isc.intel.com (David Schneider) writes:
>Well, you all know by now that Atlantis lept into the sky in the wee
>hours of the Cape morning (about 11 pm Tuesday for us on the west coast).
>(I feel silly not knowing the time of liftoff, but I was watching the
>screen, not the clock.  Was it about 2:10 EST?)
>While I don't approve of thousands of repeats of widely available
>TV news, I do like to get a record of the launch into the net archives.

Even in (civilised?) Britain, it is easy to miss this unless you watch
every news bulletin, or read every newspaper.
(I only saw 1 column inch in the Times about the LDEF retrieval.)
So thanks for posting the information anyway.
Just a shame that it takes till Friday morning for the news to reach here!
(Has it landed yet? :-)


Conor O'Neill, Software Group, INMOS Ltd., UK.
UK: conor@inmos.co.uk		US: conor@inmos.com
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