From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!eagle!harpo!ihps3!houxi!npois!npoiv!alice!sjb
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Title: Shuttle Update
Article-I.D.: alice.924
Posted: Fri Sep 17 15:37:01 1982
Received: Tue Sep 21 07:46:56 1982

The Columbia sailed through its mock mission yesterday with flying
colors, making a scheduled simulated emergency abort (wow, all these
adjectives!) landing at EAFB.  Today, NASA said that plans to move
the shuttle to pad 39A on Tuesday, the 21st, were going right on
schedule, and the launch is still scheduled for 11 November.

On Monday, NASA will pick the mission specialists for STS-9,
scheduled to blast off on 20 September, 1983.  STS-3 will see
the first non-astronauts on the shuttle and also the first
foreigners.  Its payload will be Spacelab.