Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!ukma!uflorida!gatech!ncsuvx!ncspm!jay From: jay@ncspm.ncsu.edu (Jay C. Smith) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: NASA news (accreditation for STS-26 launch) Message-ID: <987@ncspm.ncsu.edu> Date: 6 Jun 88 13:32:21 GMT References: <13079@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <1117@thumper.bellcore.com> Reply-To: jay@ncspm.ncsu.EDU (Jay C. Smith) Organization: Crop Science Dept., North Carolina State University Lines: 18 In article <1117@thumper.bellcore.com> karn@thumper.bellcore.com (Phil R. Karn) writes: >I've noticed in the NASA news reporting that they have reverted to the >original system for numbering shuttle flights (STS-26, STS-27, etc). I always supposed that they switched to the "51-L" system to avoid an STS-13. Notice that the switch occurred after STS-11, I believe. Now that they're safely past 13 and since there has been a break in shuttle activity they can switch back to the old method. :-), sort of. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Jay C. Smith uucp: ...!mcnc!ncsuvx!ncspm!jay Domain: jay@ncspm.ncsu.edu internet: jay%ncspm@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu