From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npois!alice!sjb Newsgroups: net.columbia Title: Columbia to be Mated Tonight Article-I.D.: alice.583 Posted: Wed May 19 19:58:47 1982 Received: Fri May 21 00:37:14 1982 The space shuttle Columbia will be mated with its external tank and SRB's over the night. By the time I received the AP story, the shuttle was ``within inches'' of the position in which it is kept to be mated. The mating process takes seven hours.