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From: rjnoe@ihlts.UUCP (Roger Noe)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Shuttle mission may be extended
Message-ID: <588@ihlts.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 10-Oct-84 10:07:28 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 10 10:07:28 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 12-Oct-84 07:39:05 EDT
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Space shuttle mission 41-G may be extended by one day so that Challenger
can land at Kennedy Space Center.  Hurricane Josephine is still slowly
moving toward the Florida coast.  NASA officials will decide today whether
or not to extend the mission.  If the decision is made to extend, the
EVA scheduled for tomorrow will be delayed another day, to Friday.  David
Leestma and Kathryn Sullivan are currently scheduled to perform their
extravehicular fuel transfer experiment Thursday, October 11 beginning
about 11:00 a.m. EDT.  Current landing time is set for 12:25 p.m. EDT
Saturday.

The failure of the TDRS satellite was traced to human error on the ground,
not to cosmic radiation as was first believed.  Apparently some Spacecom,
Inc. employees at White Sands, N.M. forgot to adjust TDRS to compensate for
a lunar "intrusion" and the satellite got misdirected by the moon and
strayed from its appointed position in geosynchronous orbit.  This explains
why it took over 8 hours to restore proper functioning.
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Roger Noe			ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe