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From: alb@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Transfer to VAD Delayed
Message-ID: <2222@alice.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Sep-83 14:23:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: alice.2222
Posted: Thu Sep 22 14:23:18 1983
Date-Received: Fri, 23-Sep-83 22:15:52 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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NASA has postponed the transfer of the Columbia from the
OPF to the VAB by 48 hours, but they say the delay will
not affect the launch of STS-9.  The delay is to give
engineers more time to reinforce the shuttle's midsection,
giving it more strength in its steeper reentry for this
mission.