Re: Atlantis misses by a hair

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From: William LeFebvre
Date: Thu, 04 May 1989 21:46

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In article <4260012@hpctdke.HP.COM> rbk@hpctdke.HP.COM (Richard Katz) writes:
>-/ hpctdke:sci.space.shuttle / snidely@inteloa.intel.com (David P. Schneider) /  3:01 pm  May  1, 1989 /
>-At least one account I heard was that this was a very smooth  countdown  up
>                                                  **********************
>-until  T  -  31 seconds...

>I don't have the paper in front of me but it didn't seem that smooth.
>Perhaps it was _relatively_ smooth - :-)

It was exceptionally smooth until the last few hours.  There were no
unexpected problems and no reasons at all to extend any of the planned
holds.  In fact, there wasn't even a threat of extending any of those
holds, until those things that you mentioned started happening.  That was
all within the last hour or so of the countdown.

			William LeFebvre
			Department of Computer Science
			Rice University
			<phil@Rice.edu>

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