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...Indian Ocean. Finally the astronauts fire four more bursts-this time from the two smaller orbital maneuvering rockets in Columbia's tail-boosting the ship into a nearly circular orbit 170 miles above the earth. So it should go this week, shortly after the sun rises over Cape Canaveral on Friday. If there are no new hitches Astronauts John Young, 50, and Robert Crippen, 43, will board their 75-ton orbiter Columbia, lift off from the same launch pad that sent Young and other Apollo astronauts to the moon, and spend 54½ hours racing around the earth before...
...m.p.h., and drop the landing gear. Touching down at 215 m.p.h. (a comparably sized DC-9 lands at 149 m.p.h.). Young can only pray that his tires hold as the ship rolls to a stop. Five months later, if all is A-O.K., Columbia will be back at Cape Canaveral, all fitted out and ready to take off for space again. -By Frederic Golden...
This last news conference before the launch was all smiles, all optimism and all NASA. In other press conferences, journalists in the audience ask questions that sometimes get answered, but at Cape Canaveral moderator Hugh Harris says. "I think we've had enough questions from here now. Let's go to the Johnson Space Center in Houston." A question from Houston...
Squinting his eyes at the shuttle three miles away and motioning at the 12-story Vehicle Administration Building (VAB), Numeroff says, "When I first got here in 1959, the Cape was a swamp. Now it has burgeoned onto a place like downtown Manhattan...
...Columbia, scheduled to be launched from Cape Canaveral this morning, uses five launch support systems that Halem helped Pan American World Airways, the Kennedy Space Center's contractor, develop...