From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npois!alice!sjb
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Title: Shuttle Update
Article-I.D.: alice.740
Posted: Tue Jun 29 18:10:44 1982
Received: Wed Jun 30 04:39:09 1982

With Utah State University's Getaway Special still not working,
astronauts Ken Mattingly and Henry Hartsfield wound up their third
day in space today.  They did successfully turn on (and later off)
a package from McDonnel Douglas that tested the separation of
compounds in micro gravity.  McDonnel Douglas spokesmen said that
the tests had gone very well and, depending on analysis of the
data, they may want to put up an orbiting pharmacy.  Meanwhile,
the RMS (Canadarm) went through its hardest test to date, lifting
and carrying a contamination monitor around the cargo bay; during
the test, Mattingly fired steering jets to see how the arm reacted,
just like in STS-3.

In other news, NASA has said that ships are now above the spot where
the SRB's lie on the ocean floor.  The ships will send down remote
TV's to take pictures of the empty boosters.  While NASA has said
that the shuttle will not fly until they know why the boosters sank,
a spokesman today said he envisioned no delay for STS-5.