Aalice.470 net.space utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!wheps!zeppo!harpo!npois!alice!sjb Mon Mar 29 17:44:08 1982 Shuttle News Lousma and Fullerton are now spending their eighth day in space aboard the shuttle. Just minutes before they were to start the deorbit burn, which begins an irreversible descent, the word came that they would have to wait at least until tomorrow. More dramatically, the chances are high that the Columbia will have to land on the 15,000 paved strip at Kennedy Space Center, its third choice. Officials predicted more winds at White Sands tomorrow, and they said they didn't want to keep it up any longer than then for weather at the Cape is expected to turn bad on Wednesday. No landing time has been released yet. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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.