greg@rapid.Berkeley.EDU (Greg Shippen) (01/11/90)
I heard on the news yesterday that the shuttle lauch went "nearly
flawlessly". My impression has been that the last 4 or 5 launches
have been very, very smooth overall with only the weather throwing
any significant wrenches into the work. Am I off-base or aren't
preparations and launches going surprisingly smoothly compared to
pre-Challenger attempts? Seems like there might be hope of reaching
NASA's "optimistic" lauch schedule... Comments?
Gregory B. Shippen
MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. {ames,decwrl,pyramid}!mips!greg
928 Arques Ave. greg@mips.com
Sunnyvale, CA 94086 (408) 991-0441henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (01/12/90)
In article <34337@mips.mips.COM> greg@rapid.Berkeley.EDU (Greg Shippen) writes: >I heard on the news yesterday that the shuttle lauch went "nearly >flawlessly"... Well, after delays totalling nearly a month... although one can make a case for at least some of that being one-time teething troubles of getting pad 39A back into operation. -- 1972: Saturn V #15 flight-ready| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 1990: birds nesting in engines | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu
petej@phred.UUCP (Pete Jarvis) (01/17/90)
In article <1990Jan11.195201.4981@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: > >Well, after delays totalling nearly a month... although one can make a >case for at least some of that being one-time teething troubles of getting >pad 39A back into operation. >-- Some of the delays were due to weather. Peter Jarvis.........