The Nation - News from Sept. 15, 1989
The crew of the shuttle Atlantis reviewed emergency escape procedures during a final dress-rehearsal countdown at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida before blastoff Oct. 12 on a high-priority flight to fire the nuclear-powered Galileo probe to Jupiter. Fearful of a radiation release in the event of a launch catastrophe, anti-nuclear activists have vowed to trespass at the Kennedy Space Center to delay the long-awaited flight, but the shuttle astronauts said they were confident the mission will get off the ground on time.
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