From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!sjb Newsgroups: net.columbia Title: Columbia to go to VAB Thursday Article-I.D.: alice.904 Posted: Wed Sep 8 07:27:05 1982 Received: Thu Sep 9 03:00:11 1982 Fifty five days after she landed, the space shuttle Columbia will be rolled to the Vehicle Assembly Building this Thursday. There it will be mated with its external tank and two (new) SRB's Rollout to the launch pad is scheduled for 21 September, and launch is still scheduled for 11 November. Preparations for launch are about 1 day ahead of schedule.