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Unless they mention it on the next program, the Apollo-Soyuz flight was not even mentioned.

Clear Skies.
Rich (RLTYS)

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Nope, it was left out. The series continued to be a little uneven in the way it covered things. It started with the first test flight of the shuttle (STS-1) with some pretty good coverage and then "boom", quickly went to the Challenger disaster. It made the same mistake of over-simplifying the reason for the disaster, putting the entire cause on the weather (cold), rather than on the faulty field-joint design and the decision by flight directors to launch despite some dissension from some of the engineers at Morton-Thiokol. The program also missed things like the capture of the two wayward satellites and the rescue and servicing of the Solarmax solar observatory, both of which occurred before the Challenger accident. The music also was a little tiring, as it was kind of monotonous with the same theme played over and over. Tomorrow night (9 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time), The Discovery Channel again gives you a good chance to compare this long series with the very nice film "In The Shadow of the Moon", which I kind of liked a bit more. Clear skies to you.

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David W. Knisely
Hyde Memorial Observatory
http://www.hydeobservatory.info

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