Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Shuttle Facilities ( was : Shuttle trips to the Moon )
Message-ID: <1989Jan25.163111.12573@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <566@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk> <40ebe2ca.298d@dl298d.engin.umich.edu> <1989Jan19.031325.21177@utzoo.uucp> <2248@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 89 16:31:11 GMT

In article <2248@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> willisa@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Mark Willis) writes:
>>None of these things is a bottleneck, really.  There are two pads, although
>>39A is inactive right now due to lack of demand...
>
>I thought it was because 39A was being upgraded (again), or am I wrong?

Well, sort of kind of.  39B has had some improvements that 39A lacks, and so
39A is, more or less, in need of upgrading.  Nobody is hurrying to do it,
though, and NASA in fact doesn't feel it can spare the money to do it now,
because there isn't enough traffic for both pads to be needed.
-- 
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