Re: Are launches really running as smoothly as they seem?

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1990 19:52

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In article <34337@mips.mips.COM> greg@rapid.Berkeley.EDU (Greg Shippen) writes:
>I heard on the news yesterday that the shuttle lauch went "nearly
>flawlessly"...

Well, after delays totalling nearly a month...  although one can make a
case for at least some of that being one-time teething troubles of getting
pad 39A back into operation.
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1972: Saturn V #15 flight-ready|     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
1990: birds nesting in engines | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu

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