alb@alice.UUCP (10/23/83)
NASA and the ESA put off until around 1 November the setting of the STS-9 launch date. Engineers are preparing the Columbia to be ready to launch on 28 November, but the two agencies might opt to wait until February, when conditions will be better for Spacelab. If that happens, Spacelab will have to be removed from the Columbia and moved to KSC's Operations and Checkout Building for ''storage and maintenance.''