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NASA listed only 27 minor hitches or anomalies during the eighth mission of its Space Transportation System. Among them was a leaky valve in the shuttle's million-dollar space toilet, a source of trouble on four previous flights. In addition, solar panels on India's Insat-1B, a $45 million communications satellite released by Challenger, failed to open all the way, threatening to render the satellite as useless as Insat-1A, launched last year, which also developed panel problems. Still, said Mission Evaluation Manager Joseph E. Mechelay, "none of these things should affect STS-9." That flight...
...major goals: the launch for the government of India of a $45 million communications and weather satellite, known as Insat-lB. According to the laws of orbital mechanics, it was the only time of day that Challenger could leave Kennedy and be in position to place Insat-1B into the proper orbit over India...
...shuttle's second day aloft, while orbiting 185 miles above the Pacific, the crew set Insat-1B spinning outside the open doors of the shuttle's payload bay. The satellite spun near by in space for 45 minutes, then, reflecting the sun's rays like a giant shiny ice cube, it flawlessly began its week-long climb to an altitude of 22,300 miles, propelled by its own rocket boosters. "The deployment was on time, and the satellite looks good," reported Mission Specialist Guion S. Bluford Jr., an aerospace engineer and veteran Air Force pilot...
This year if one listens to their critics--the Harvard Band came closer to fitting Definition 1b than ever before. On October 11, University of Massachusetts at Amherst President David Knapp said. "The Harvard Band, in about 14 years of watching them, has reached a new low of being neither gentlemen, ladies or scholars...
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