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Title: Hubble flight slips by 4-5 weeks
Post by: Rusty_Barton on 05/01/2008 05:30 pm

Hubble flight slips by 4-5 weeks
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7378238.stm

Title: Re: Hubble flight slips by 4-5 weeks
Post by: ChrisGebhardt on 05/01/2008 05:32 pm

Um... this is old news. Chris reported this a while ago.

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/content/cat.asp?cid=5

Title: RE: Hubble flight slips by 4-5 weeks
Post by: stockman on 05/01/2008 05:32 pm

wow... is that story out of date - old news, guess the boat finally arrived overseas with the mail so the bbc could catch up on world events... :)

Title: Re: Hubble flight slips by 4-5 weeks
Post by: rdale on 05/01/2008 05:47 pm

It was "informally" announced in this morning's shuttle/ISS update briefing. That's why FlaTo and other sources are now carrying it finally... The only "potential" change to Chris' story is that John Shannon said end of September is a possiblity if ET production goes well.

Title: RE: Hubble flight slips by 4-5 weeks
Post by: Chris Bergin on 05/01/2008 07:04 pm

Yeah, been the case for a month now, but was always going to be officially "announced" when the next big presser was due. As Rob notes, we've followed on with the status for at least every week since in the fleet roundups, and there's a chance they could make end of September, but all depends on MAF's mitigation plan.

Still Oct 8 for 125 on official documentation. If anything changes, I think you all know by now we'll report it first.

I hope you're reading my articles Rusty ;)