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Conference 7.286::space

Title:	Space Exploration
Notice:	Shuttle launch schedules, see Note 6
Moderator:	PRAGMA::GRIFFIN

Created:	Mon Feb 17 1986
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	974
Total number of notes:	18843

48.0. "The Space Shuttle ATLANTIS" by PYRITE::WEAVER () Thu Apr 18 1985 02:40

Subject: Atlantis Delivered to KSC
Posted: Sat Apr 13 17:01:22 1985

The space shuttle Atlantis arrived at KSC today,
and workers began unmounting it from its jumbo
jet host.  It will be towed to the OFP for preparation
for its maiden voyage this year.  Atlantis is
the first shuttle capable of launching the new
liquid-fueled Centaur upper stage, designed to
lift heavy payloads into geosynchronous orbits
and launch payloads into deep space trajectories.
Currently slated for Centaur launch from the shuttle
are the Galileo project to Jupiter and a satellite
that will orbit the sun's poles.

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48.1 ISTARI::HELSEL Mon Apr 29 1985 17:19 7

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48.1		ISTARI::HELSEL		`Mon Apr 29 1985 17:19`	7
	Those two flights (Galileo and Solar Polar) are to be launched back to back, no more than four days apart. They will be launched one from each pad and be our first simultaneous dual orbit. This launch was slated for May 86, but may have been pushed back. In June of 86, scientists are going to send up a satellite with three lights on the side. One is green, one yellow and one red.

Those two flights (Galileo and Solar Polar) are to be launched back to back,
no more than four days apart.  They will be launched one from each pad and be 
our first simultaneous dual orbit.  This launch was slated for May 86, but
may have been pushed back.

In June of 86, scientists are going to send up a satellite with three lights
on the side.  One is green, one yellow and one red.