mcdowell@cfa250.harvard.edu (Jonathan McDowell) (05/13/89)
From article <25365@ames.arc.nasa.gov>, by yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee):
> NASA ANNOUNCES UPCOMING SHUTTLE FLIGHT SEQUENCE
Note that this announcement quietly slips HST back past the STS 36 military mission
again. Are all these DoD missions *really* so important to national security that
they should jump the queue ahead of Space Telescope?
Here is the current schedule for the next year, with crews:
(sorry about the wide lines)
1989
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Aug STS 28 Columbia Shaw Richards Leestma Adamson Brown DoD
Oct 12 STS 34 Atlantis Williams McCulley Lucid Baker Chang-Diaz Galileo
Nov? STS 33 Discovery Gregory Griggs Musgrave Thornton(K) Carter DoD
Dec? STS 32 Columbia Brandenstein Wetherbee Dunbar Low Ivins LDEF-1R/Syn
1990 (Old manifest dates)
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(Feb 1) STS 36 Atlantis Creighton Casper Hilmers Mullane Thout DoD
(Dec) STS 31 Discovery Shriver Bolden Hawley McCandless Sullivan HST
(Mar 1) STS 35 Columbia Brand Gardner Lounge Hoffmann Parker Parise Durrance Astro 1
(Apr 5) STS 37 Discovery Nagel Cameron Ross Apt Godwin GRO
May 10 STS 38 Atlantis Covey Culbertson Springer Meade Gemar DoD
Jun 7 STS 40 Columbia O'Connor Blaha Seddon Bagian Jernigan Gaffney Phillips SLS 1
Jul 19 STS 39 Discovery CDR PLT Bluford Hieb Veach MSE? STP
Oct 5 STS 41 Atlantis CDR PLT MS-1 MS-2 MS-3 Ulysses
Nov 1 STS 42 Columbia CDR PLT MS-1 MS-2 MS-3 MSE-1 MSE-2 Starlabhenry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (05/15/89)
In article <1537@cfa237.cfa250.harvard.edu> mcdowell@cfa250.harvard.edu (Jonathan McDowell) writes: >... Are all these DoD missions *really* so important to national security that >they should jump the queue ahead of Space Telescope? DoD thinks so, and they unfortunately have final say on the matter -- in a crunch, they can even overrule NASA on payload scheduling. -- Subversion, n: a superset | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology of a subset. --J.J. Horning | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu