Aucbvax.4952 fa.space utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!space Wed Nov 4 04:21:28 1981 SPACE Digest V2 #27 >From OTA@S1-A Wed Nov 4 04:09:11 1981 SPACE Digest Volume 2 : Issue 27 Today's Topics: Shuttle tiles, camera Correction ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 3 November 1981 21:58-EST From: Robert Elton Maas Subject: Shuttle tiles, camera To: SPACE at MIT-MC This flight of the Columbia we won't have to worry about the tiles like we did the first flight. There's a camera on the boom that maneuvers payloads into position, and it can simply maneuver itself around to look at the underside of the shuttle with the camera. Thus EVA is needed only if a problem is actually found, not to just take a close look at potential problems. (Recall, last flight in April, the only pictures of the underside of the shuttle were from a secret ground- based military spy camera, which I would think would be inferior to on-site inspection by the boom camera.) ------------------------------ Date: 3 Nov 1981 2254-PST From: Imsss at SUMEX-AIM Subject: Correction To: SPACE at MIT-MC (This is actually REM -- MIT-* and SU-AI are all down.) Correction, the pictures of underside of shuttle in April were from a secret spy satellite, not a ground-based camera. ------- ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest ******************* ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.