[sci.space] Launch advisory: Launch date set for STS-28

yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) (07/27/89)

Sarah Keegan
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.                      July 26, 1989


LAUNCH ADVISORY:  LAUNCH DATE SET FOR STS-28


     NASA officials, meeting at a Flight Readiness Review at 
Kennedy Space Center, Fla., today set Aug. 8, 1989, as the launch 
date for STS-28.  The launch period for the Department of 
Defense-dedicated Space Shuttle mission will be from 7:30 to 
11:30 a.m. EDT.  This schedule depends upon completion of work in 
progress and cooperative weather allowing normal pad activities 
to continue uninterrupted.