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- From: phfrom@nyx.uni-konstanz.de (Hartmut Frommert)
- Subject: Re: is this the 50th space shuttle launch?
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- Organization: Dept. of Physics, University of Constance
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- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 10:39:51 GMT
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- sasdhb@lizard.unx.sas.com (Doug Brann) writes:
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- >This is the 50th shuttle mission. The STS numbers do not match the number
- >of missions. The numbers are assigned when the mission is planned and due
- >to delays and schedule changes the STS numbers became out of order. For
- >example STS-50 was the Columbia Microgravity Lab a couple of months back and
- >was the 48th shuttle mission. The Voyager's were not launched in order either.
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- This is not so unusual: Also Gemini 7 was launched before Gemini 6 in Dec 65.
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