From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhtsa!alice!sjb Newsgroups: net.columbia Title: Close Encounters of the Third Kind Article-I.D.: alice.1093 Posted: Wed Nov 10 17:40:45 1982 Received: Fri Nov 12 03:30:50 1982 During the first four hours of STS-5, the Columbia will come within 48 miles of the orbiting Soviet Salyut-7 space station. NASA says the encounter could be close enough for the respective crews to see each other if they are looking in the right direction and if lighting is good.