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- From: petej@phred.UUCP (Peter Jarvis)
- Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
- Subject: Re: Two pads??
- Message-ID: <3825@phred.UUCP>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 22:27:28 GMT
- References: <92209.044513PDC103@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Reply-To: petej@phred.UUCP (Peter Jarvis)
- Organization: <92209.044513PDC103@psuvm.psu.edu>o
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- In article <92209.044513PDC103@psuvm.psu.edu> PDC103@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
- >Is it my imagination or did I hear that budget cutbacks will result in the
- >mothballing of pad B? I believe that the mothballing is in the works for the
- >near future, kind of throws a monkey-wrench in the idea of (quasi) simultaneous
- >launches. So Henry, what would be the turn-around time for pad A?
- >
- I haven't heard anything about moth-balling any of the two pads. They
- are trying to keep up a reasonable Shuttle schedule and to do that
- you need both pads. Turn-around time for 1 pad I believe is a few weeks.
- NASA has no current plans for simultaneous launches. They can't do it
- because they have only one control room. They are working on a second one.
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- Peter Jarvis.......
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- because they only have one control room. They are working on a second one.
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