[net.columbia] SPAS Released

alb@alice.UUCP (06/22/83)

SPAS was released by the RMS early this morning and is now floating
free of the shuttle, as Crippen and Hauck maneuver about it.  The
satellite, in addition to taking measurements of the effects of
such maneuvers on nearby satellites, is taking the first-ever from
space, out-of-ship view of the shuttle against the Earth.