SHUTTLE TROUBLE

After   3  years  of  pause  in  Space
Shuttle  project, 'coz of explosion of
Chalenger, over Cape Canaveral program
Shuttle  was continued by 26th mission
of  Space Shuttle.  Mission with marks
STS-28  (shuttle  Columbia,  commander
Broaster    Shou),   STS-33   (shuttle
Discovery,     commander     Frederick
Gregory)  and  STS-36,  STS-38  has  a
military  mission.  But  in mission of
shuttle  Atlantis  STS-34  there  were
Magellan  interplanet  probe  put into
Earth  orbit,  and in STS-34 there was
launched  Gallileo  probe  from  Earth
orbit   to   Jupiter,   and   missions
continued  with  launching probes like
Ulyssyes  and Astro-1.  Even in flight
STS-29 in January 9-20 1990 there were
some orbital correcting of LDEF probe.
Then a communication satellite Sincimm
F-5 was placed in orbite.  In the 1990
there  was  two secret missions, first
Atlantis   -   28.02.1990  and  second
??.??.????.   In  first  mission recon
satellite  AFP-732  (18  tons  -  cost
about  500  millions  $) was placed in
orbit with mission to observe airspace
over   the  Black  Sea  and  over  80%
airspace  over  Russia.  Both shuttles
has lander in Edwards AFB.  And now in
April  of  this  year  NASA launched a
Shuttle Endevour to be replacement for
lost   Chalenger.

Will be continued in the next issue...


          JERRY/PLS