Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxx.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!ihuxx!ndsss From: ndsss@ihuxx.UUCP (Alfred R. Zantow) Newsgroups: net.columbia Subject: Re: When is the next Shuttle launch Message-ID: <883@ihuxx.UUCP> Date: Wed, 12-Dec-84 18:28:39 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxx.883 Posted: Wed Dec 12 18:28:39 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 13-Dec-84 04:00:18 EST References: <2531@sdcc3.UUCP>, <689@ames.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 25 > >> Could one of the gurus of this group please tell me when the next >> shuttle launch will be? I am going to Florida from Dec. 17 to Dec. >> 24, and I was hoping to be in time to see the glorious event in >> person. > >The next launch of the Shuttle is a DOD mission. No formal date is >for release to the general public. That probably would not matter, >because there are typically launch delays anyway. This Shuttle is >Blue. > >--eugene miya > NASA Ames Res. Ctr. > {hplabs,ihnp4,dual,hao,vortex}!ames!aurora!eugene > emiya@ames-vmsb.ARPA > > BLUE ???!?!?!!? Does this mean the shuttle is painted the color blue, or is this some term I have not heard yet. Does this mean non-DOD flights are coded as some other color ? Please send mail or post it to the net. Thankes, Al Zantow