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Article #3788Re: GAS Bridge Flights
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 20:41
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 20:41
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In article <1992Nov19.211542.44959@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> whitten@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>Along the same lines, what really the chances of getting on something
>besides a bridge flight? I assume they prefer to get twelve customers
>taken care of with one launch, so do they even consider putting
>on just one or two cans?
If you've got a *flight* *ready* payload, chances of getting on are probably
pretty good. They have been flying small numbers of them, but so few of the
GAS reservations actually correspond to ready-to-fly payloads that some of
those GAS cans have contained only ballast.
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Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!utcsri!utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: GAS Bridge Flights Message-ID: <By32sE.8nL@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 20:41:01 GMT References: <1992Nov19.211542.44959@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 13