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Article #9072Re: How Hubble will get there
From: Greg Hennessy
Date: Wed, 24 May 1989 20:24
Date: Wed, 24 May 1989 20:24
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In article <3313@kalliope.rice.edu> phil@rice.edu () writes: >[ Excuse the cross-posting, please. ] > >Here's something I found out yesterday. Currently, the Hubble Space >Telescope is being stored in California. Everyone knows that it is going >to be launched (some day) on a shuttle from the Cape (Florida east coast). >But apparently, the only safe way to transport it is by boat. Which means >it will almost certainly have to go thru the Panama canal.........Let's >hope things improve down that way in the next year. Sigh. > Actually it will go in a C5A transport plane. It was going to go by boar, but recently it was determined that the place could carry the load. The people at STSCI are much happier with it travelling by plane. -Greg Hennessy, University of Virginia USPS Mail: Astronomy Department, Charlottesville, VA 22903-2475 USA Internet: gsh7w@virginia.edu UUCP: ...!uunet!virginia!gsh7w
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!uflorida!haven!uvaarpa!hudson!astsun5.astro.Virginia.EDU!gsh7w From: gsh7w@astsun5.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy) Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: How Hubble will get there Message-ID: <1531@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> Date: 24 May 89 20:24:02 GMT References: <3313@kalliope.rice.edu> Sender: news@hudson.acc.virginia.edu Reply-To: gsh7w@astsun5.astro.Virginia.EDU.acc.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy) Organization: University of Virginia, Charlottesville Lines: 22