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From: alb@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: STS-9 Delayed
Message-ID: <2249@alice.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 15-Oct-83 08:35:57 EDT
Article-I.D.: alice.2249
Posted: Sat Oct 15 08:35:57 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 16-Oct-83 11:33:11 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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NASA decided yesterday to roll Columbia back to the VAB and
switch the one SRB nozzle made with protective lining from
batch 1042, the same batch that the faulty STS-8 SRB nozzle
came from.  The ''earliest possible launch date'' is now
28 November, though that would mean loss of scientific data
from Spacelab, due to sun angle changes.  If ESA does not
find that acceptable, the next launch period begins in
February.