rjnoe@ihlts.UUCP (Roger Noe) (11/06/84)
NASA has changed the time shuttle Discovery is to lift off tomorrow (Nov. 7) to 8:22 a.m. EST, four minutes later than previously announced. The next flight of Challenger, which had been set for December 8, has been postponed indefinitely because of the need to replace almost 10 percent of its over 30 thousand thermal tiles. A bonding/filler compound was found to have softened, because of the actions of a waterproofing compound used on the tiles and/or repeated heating from reentry. Discovery does not now have the same problem. Challenger's mission was to have been a secret Defense Department mission, but it was known that the payload would use an Inertial Upper Stage to achieve geosynchronous orbital altitude. -- Roger Noe ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe
rjnoe@ihlts.UUCP (Roger Noe) (11/07/84)
NASA has now set launch time November 8 for 7:17 a.m. EST. -- Roger Noe ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe