From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npois!alice!sjb Newsgroups: net.columbia Title: Shuttle Meets Garbage Article-I.D.: alice.752 Posted: Fri Jul 2 07:30:57 1982 Received: Sat Jul 3 01:33:35 1982 The Columbia passed within 7.7 miles of an old, spinning Soviet rocket booster bottom stage last night; NASA says there was no cause for danger, but the astronauts would have taken evasive action if there was a chance of the two, both moving at 17,000 mph, colliding. They never even saw it. Meanwhile, Challenger is now at EAFB, waiting for her day on Sunday. There is still a possibility of the Enterprise being there, but it is not definite.