Re: HST

Philip Chien (kc4yer@amsat.org)
Wed, 29 Nov 1995 10:52:37 -0400

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>        I must be missing something here... how could Hubble ever make a
>"high overhead pass" from New Jersey?

Well, it could if it was way way way off course .... ;-)

A C-5A carried Hubble from the Lockheed Sunnyvale California plant where it
was built to the Kennedy Space Center, but that went nowhere near New
Jersey so that's out ....


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