Aalice.497 net.columbia utzoo!decvax!harpo!npois!alice!sjb Tue Apr 6 19:42:47 1982 Shuttle Back at KSC After 15 days at White Sands, 3 longer than STS-2 stayed at Edwards, the Columbia touched down at the 15,000 runway at KSC today at 1528 EST. Immediately, its 747 taxied to a demating device, and, over the next 20 hours, it will be removed from the plane. It should be in its hangar by Wednesday, and then the inspections and work on it will begin, starting with the inspection of the 38 missing tiles and the rebonding of 1200 more. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.