Aalice.423 net.space utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!cbosg!harpo!mhtsa!alice!sjb Wed Mar 17 17:48:59 1982 Shuttle News Major General James A. Abrahamson, shuttle project director today gave George Page, shuttle launch director, the orders to commence the countdown for STS-3 on time -- at 0400 EST Thursday. However, shortly after that, NASA announced that Rogers Dry Lake would not be ready for a 29 March landing. Ruling out landing on the 15,000 foot strip at the Cape until the fifth mission, NASA must now decide whether to land at White Sands or to delay the launch (or hope that Rogers does in fact dry out). ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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.