NATION : 1990 Shuttle Agenda Cut Back
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced today it is shuffling its space shuttle launch schedule, reducing from 10 to nine the number of flights this year and aiming for 12 flights in 1992 and 13 in 1993.
NASA’s new 1990 schedule reflects a delay in two of the first three missions and a shifting of some flight priorities.
The dropped 1990 flight, that of a Strategic Defense Initiative payload, was put off nearly 14 months from its scheduled launch, until January, 1992. No specific reason was given for the long delay.
The space agency’s new long-range launch schedule calls for eight flights in 1991, 12 in 1992, 13 in 1993, 11 in 1994, 11 in 1995 and 10 in 1996.
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