fireman@tippy.uucp (02/03/89)
From USA Today - Thursday, February 2, 1989
SHUTTLE REPAIRS DELAY FIRST MISSION OF '89
"Three engine pumps on the space shuttle Discovery must be replaced -
delaying the first shuttle mission of 1989 until at least mid-March,
NASA said Wednesday. The launch, originally scheduled for Feb. 23,
must occur by March 18 so as not to delay a high-priority Venus
probe mission by the shuttle Atlantis in mid-April [Magellan STS-30].
Replacement pumps were ordered after engineers studied cracks in a pump
on Atlantis during its mission in December."