From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhtsa!alice!alb
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Title: Satellite Cleanup
Article-I.D.: alice.1592
Posted: Sat Mar 12 10:09:25 1983
Received: Sun Mar 13 09:07:41 1983

A special satellite inspection and cleanup team that will arrive
at KSC early next weeks says they expect to clean the satellite's
hinges of any contamination and have it reinstalled within a week,
leading to a liftoff no earlier than 7 April.  However, that assumption
is based on the hope that the satellite has not been extensively
damaged by a late February windstorm.

Meanwhile, workers moved that last of Challenger's three engines to
the pad today and hope to have it installed by the end of tomorrow.
Following that, extensive leak testing will be conducted next week.