[net.columbia] TDRS-2 Yanked from STS-8 Manifest

alb (05/05/83)

TDRS-2, originally scheduled to be launched from STS-8, now
scheduled to launch in August, has been removed from that
flight's manifest, because NASA has as yet failed to figure
out why the IUS that was attached to TDRS-1 malfunctioned,
sending the satellite into an errant orbit.  The loss of
TDRS-2 will hamper STS-9's cargo, Spacelab, in that the
Spacelab planners had relied on the two satellites to
provide a continuous source of transmission to the Earth.