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Aalice.133 net.columbia utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!houxf!harpo!research!alice!sjb Wed Nov 4 06:48:32 1981 not for shuttle only The fuel is in! The crew is sitting in the cockpit! The weather is still menacing, but if it holds, in about 45 minutes we will have the world's first proven reusable spaceship!

On the landing side, Roger's Dry Lake is dry and ready for the return trip to Earth in five days.

Note away from shuttle: The Soviet Union today launched a second unmanned probe to Venus in less than six days.

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