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...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 bringing down their magnificent flying machine-the most advanced spacecraft ever built-to a daredevil...
Compared with earlier spaceflights, the shuttle's journey will be a luxury cruise. Columbia's interior is pressurized to a normal earth atmosphere so the astronauts will be able to wear comfortable cotton coveralls for most of the trip. Young and Crippen will sleep in their cockpit seats, tote along an electric food warmer to heat up freeze-dried and other packaged food (sample menu: shrimp cocktail, beefsteak, butterscotch pudding and grape drink). On future missions, with as many as seven people aboard, Columbia will have a fully equipped galley as well as sleeping bunks. Young...
CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla.-As the space shuttle Columbia poised on its launch pad yesterday, its commander, John W. Young, and pilot, Robert L. Crippen, relaxed by cruising in T-38 jets before a last sleep, and 4800 members of the press awarded like Caps mosquitos to the media site three-and-a-half mils down-range from Columbia...
...Louis, Miss., that further testing was delayed four months. Last week's firing was the culmination of a series of tests that engineers required to be sure all engine problems had been overcome before Columbia lifts off with its first two astronauts, John Young, 50, and Robert Crippen...
...Crippen likes to quote Young's remark, "If you're not nervous, you don't understand what's happening." But both men are looking forward eagerly to the moment when they will "thread the needle" with Columbia as they blast off from Cape Canaveral and then come plummeting down for their one and only pass at the runway 54 hours later. Says Young: "Unbelievable...