[net.columbia] Shuttle Ready by 27 June

sjb (05/13/82)

NASA announced yesterday that the space shuttle Columbia will be
moved to the VAB in five days and then rolled to the launch pad,
for four weeks of testing, on 22 May.  NASA said that the machine
itself should be ready for a launch on 27 June; this is not a launch
date yet however:  The astronauts, the payload, the technicians,
and others must also be ready.  This flight, STS-4, the last test
flight, will carry aboard more experiments and also a DoD package,
of which nature will not be released.