Shuttle ready
NZPA-ReuterCape Canaveral The United States space shuttle Colombia, the world's first reusable space vehicle, passed its final test and could be ready for its first launch on April 10, the director of shuttle operations at the Kennedy Space Centre said yesterday. “We are working right now towards a launch date of the 10th” George Pagre, launch director of the unique spaceship's first mission, told a' press conference. He added, however, that the exact launch date would not be decided until top officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration had reviewed all aspects of the three-day mission. A long series of minor and major problems have put the shuttle programme billions of dollars above budget and delayed it for years.
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Press, 31 March 1981, Page 8
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