From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: HST Servicing Mission Scheduled for 11 Days
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
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In <1993Apr28.141606.17449@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov> bday@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov (Brian Day) writes:

>rdouglas@stsci.edu (Rob Douglas) writes:

>>[...]  But try to land a shuttle with that big huge telescope in the 
>>back and you could have problems.  The shuttle just isn't designed to land 
>>with that much weight in the payload.

>Is HST really _that_ much heavier than a Spacelab ???

I can't speak to sheer mass, but part of the problem is that HST
wasn't built to ever be brought back down.  It's not built for those
kinds of 'jolt' forces and there is no support cradle for it (which is
additional weight that would be required.

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 in the real world."   -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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