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.