From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npois!alice!sjb
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Title: Columbia to be Mated Tonight
Article-I.D.: alice.583
Posted: Wed May 19 19:58:47 1982
Received: Fri May 21 00:37:14 1982

The space shuttle Columbia will be mated with its external tank
and SRB's over the night.  By the time I received the AP story,
the shuttle was ``within inches'' of the position in which it
is kept to be mated.  The mating process takes seven hours.