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Michael R. Grabois ... change $ to \s\
July 2nd 03, 07:47 AM
On 30 Jun 2003 14:36:37 -0400, jeff findley >
wrote:

>"Brian Gaff" > writes:
>>
>> Also, the somewhat vague reference to the inability to do anything being why
>> nobody wanted to actually know what Columbia had wrong with it sounds a bit
>> odd to me. Are we saying here that people, probably even the crew, were just
>> crossing their fingers because they knew there was nothing that could be
>> done?
>
>It seems the crew was told that there wasn't a problem:
>
>http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=9654

This is nothing new. They told us early on that the crew was notified by email
and that a video clip had been sent up as well, all telling them "hey we saw
something but it's no big deal."