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.