🚀 go-pugleaf

Here is the shuttle manifest that you've all be waiting for.
As someone suggested, thus is just a first cut at the
schedule; we have to wait a few more rounds as the more
influential payloads jostle for better positions.

Payload Acronym List:
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ASTRO:	Ultraviolet Astronomy Telescope
ATLAS:	Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science
COFS:	Control of Flexible Structures
EOS:	Electrophoresis Operations in Space
GPS:	Global Positioning System
IML:	International Microgravity Laboratory
MSL:	Materials Science Laboratory
SHARE:	Space Station Heatpipe Advanced Radiator Experiment
SLS:	Space Life Sciences Laboratory
SSBUV:	Shuttle Solar Backscatter Ultra-Violet Instrument
TSS:	Tethered Satellite System

DOD:	Department of Defense classified payload:  Note the information
	on these payloads is unavailable.


Space Shuttle Operations Through Flight 53:
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Flight	Date/		Inclination/	Crew/		Payload		Carrier
	Orbiter		Altitude	Duration	
------	-------		------------	--------	-------		-------

26	2/18/88		28.5		5		TDRS-C		IUS
	Discovery	160		4

27	5/26/88		0.0		0		DOD
	Atlantis	0		0

28	7/28/88		0.0		0		DOD
	Columbia	0		0

29	9/22/88		28.5		5		TDRS-D		IUS
	Discovery	160		4

30	11/17/88	28.5		5		Space Telescope	
	Atlantis	320		7

31	1/19/89		28.5		7		ASTRO-1		IG+2P
	Columbia	190		7

32	3/2/89		0.0		0		DOD
	Discovery	0		0

33	4/25/89		28.5		5		Magellan	IUS
	Atlantis	110		4

34	6/2/89		0.0		0		DOD		LM
	Discovery	0		0		Spacelab

35	6/21/89		28.5		5		GPS-1		PAM-D2
	Columbia	160		7		GPS-2		PAM-D2
							MSL-3		MPESS

36	7/20/89		0.0		0		DOD
	Atlantis	0		0

37	9/1/89		0.0		0		DOD
	Discovery	0		0

38	9/21/89		28.5		5		GPS-3		PAM-D2
	Columbia	160		5		GPS-4		PAM-D2
							MSL-4		MPESS

39	11/1/89		28.5		5		Planetary Opportunity
	Atlantis	110		4

40	12/7/89		57.0		7		SLS-1		LM
	Discovery	160		7

41	1/18/90		28.5		5		Gamma Ray Observatory
	Columbia	200		4

42	2/15/90		0.0		0		DOD
	Atlantis	0		0

43	4/20/90		28.5		7		IML-1		LM
	Discovery	160		7

44	5/4/90		28.5		5		GPS-5		PAM-D2
	Columbia	160		7		Pathfinder
							EOS-1
							SHARE

45	5/31/90		0.0		0		DOD
	Atlantis	0		0

46	7/12/90		0.0		0		DOD
	Discovery	0		0

47	7/26/90		28.5		5		GPS-6		PAM-D2
	Columbia	160		7		SKYNET-4	PAM-D2
							MSL-5		MPESS

48	8/31/90		0.0		0		DOD
	Atlantis	0		0

49	10/5/90		28.5		5		Planetary Opportunity
	Discovery	110		4

50	10/25/90	28.5		5		GPS-7		PAM-D2
	Columbia	160		7		INSAT-1D	PAM-D2
							TSS-1

51	11/15/90	28.5		5		LDEF Retrieval
	Atlantis	200		7		SYNCOM IV-5

52	1/17/92		57.0		7		ATLAS-1		IG+2P
	Discovery	160		7		COFS-1		Pallet

53	2/14/91		28.5		5		GPS-8		PAM-D2
	Columbia	160		7		GPS-9		PAM-D2
							MSL-6		MPESS
							SSBUV-1


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Disclaimer:  The above information is not guaranteed to be free from
errors or any other inaccuracies due to my sources, so don't plan
your vacation time around the shuttle schedule.
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