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In article <3313@kalliope.rice.edu> phil@rice.edu () writes:
>it will almost certainly have to go thru the Panama canal.........Let's
>hope things improve down that way in the next year.    Sigh.

Fortunately, the situation has changed.  The USAF has refitted a couple
of C-5s to carry large military space payloads, and one of them will be
borrowed to take HST to the Cape.  The possibility of encountering trouble
going via Panama wasn't entirely lost on NASA, although they were thinking
of terrorism rather than unstable governments (officially, at least).  But
until the C-5 refit was well underway, there wasn't an alternative.
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