Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site hoxna.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!ihnp4!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!hoxna!kek From: kek@hoxna.UUCP ( K. E. Kepple) Newsgroups: net.space Subject: STS-41G and Relativity Message-ID: <313@hoxna.UUCP> Date: Mon, 10-Sep-84 17:57:21 EDT Article-I.D.: hoxna.313 Posted: Mon Sep 10 17:57:21 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 03:47:26 EDT Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 22 > STS mission 41G (Challenger) is scheduled to liftoff from KSC on Monday, > 10-1-84 at 7 A.M. EST (before sunrise). It will be an eight day mission > scheduled to land at KSC on Tuesday, 10-16-84 at 12:21 P.M. EST. It > will be the largest crew ever sent into space - 7 people - of which 2 > are women (another first). > Craig AndersonApparently it will be the FASTEST flight to date also, taking advantage of the effects of relativity to pack an eight day mission into fifteen Earth days! Of course, it does give the ground crew a little extra time to get ready for the landing. OK Scotty, full power to the engines. Mr. Sulu.....warp 8!! 8-) Ken Kepple AT&T-Bell Labs - Holmdel NJ 07733 201-949-6525 Cornet 8-233-6525 ...!{hocda, ihnp4, floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!hogpc}!houxm!houxf!hoxna!kek