gandalf@pro-canaveral.cts.com (Ken Hollis) (10/01/90)
Greetings and Salutations: Re: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Sez: Surprise yourself! No they weren't; this is a vulgar Luddite myth. Challenger was launched late in January, and G+U were going into the Jupiter launch window around the beginning of June. There were several intervening flights scheduled. --->End Quote: Yes, you are correct. There were some interveaning flights between Galileo & Ulysses (as there has been currently) but the previous post that I was refering to seemed to imply that they weren't being launched off the shuttle in that time period. They WERE, however, scheduled to be launched with the Centaur upper stage rather than the current IUS. They were also in the same approximate time frame as current for the launch timeframe (if I remember correctly). They were also scheduled to be on two different flights, not to be launched off the same mission, as the Centaur stage is fairly big. Ken Hollis UUCP: crash!pnet01!pro-canaveral!gandalf ProLine: gandalf@pro-canaveral ARPA: crash!pnet01!pro-canaveral!gandalf@nosc.mil INET: gandalf@pro-canaveral.cts.com Last Resort: gandalf%pro-canaveral@clark.uucp "I Don't Think We're In Kansas Any More..."
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (10/01/90)
In article <4748@crash.cts.com> gandalf@pro-canaveral.cts.com (Ken Hollis) writes: >Challenger was launched late in January, and G+U were going into the >Jupiter launch window around the beginning of June. There were several >intervening flights scheduled. > >--->End Quote: > >Yes, you are correct. There were some interveaning flights between Galileo & >Ulysses (as there has been currently) ... Uh, no, sorry again. Galileo and Ulysses were going up in fast succession, since under the old plan they both went into the same Jupiter launch window. In fact, there were some concerns about whether two launches could be mounted so close together, especially with the extra work needed for the Centaurs. There definitely weren't any launches between them. However, there were launches scheduled after the ill-fated Challenger mission but before G+U. "The very next flight would have been carrying plutonium" is pure hysterical propaganda. -- Imagine life with OS/360 the standard | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology operating system. Now think about X. | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry