[net.space] A little bit too picky....

TAW@S1-A@sri-unix (12/03/82)

From: Tom Wadlow <TAW at S1-A>
	Date: 1 Dec 82 16:26:36-PST (Wed)
	From: harpo!utah-cs!sask!hardie at Ucb-C70
	Subject: Re: Egyption Rivers Discoved by Columbia - (nf)

	This is a picky detail but is it not more accurate to say that the
	instruments on board the satellite launched by Columbia did the detecting
	of things like dry riverbeds? Columbia itself was the 'delivery truck'?
	(Which does not detract from Columbia at all - MORE POWER TO IT I say!)

No it is not more accurate.  The dry riverbeds were detected on the second
(or perhaps the third) flight,  using instruments mounted in the cargo bay.
The two satellites launched by STS-5 were communications satellites, not
remote sensing devices.  --Tom