Word: launching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both at the Florida launch site and in Houston where the ascent to space is directed, engineers studied computer tapes that recorded performance of the shuttle's systems every one one-thousandth of a second...
...Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., which runs America's unmanned space program under contract to NASA, a Voyager 2 expert said the space shuttle program is needed to launch unmanned probes...
...suspension of space flights pending the shuttle investigation may well disrupt plans to launch two unmanned space probes from shuttles in May. If the May launches are delayed the probes won't be feasible again until mid-1987, said Frank Bristow, JPL's chief spokesman...
...national decision is that the launch vehicle for all spacecraft will be the shuttle, therefore we are part of the manned program, we are dependent on the manned program," said JPL director Lew Allen...
...launch was to have been the second of 15this year--by far the most ambitiousschedule in NASA's four-year-plus shuttle program...