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1. 6.lieno Gaiette-Journal Wednesday, ovember 10, Weather for shuttle launch uncertain astronauts were up early and working. Pilots Vance Brand and Robert Overmyer made practice landings on the long Kennedy Space Center runway here while mission specialists Joseph Allen and William Lenoir reviewed satellite deployment procedures. "We hope to put on a good show for you Thursday morning," Overmyer told reporters Tuesday after he and his crewmates arrived from Houston. The astronauts were undergoing a final medical check and received briefings on the flight plan and the weather.

Brand almost died during the joint U.S. -Soviet space mission in 1975 when exhaust gases seeped into the Apollo capsule as he and two other astronauts returned to Earth. Columbia received a go-ahead for launch late Tuesday from Maj. Gen. James A.

Abrahamson, head of NASA's shuttle management team, after he conferred with the agency's top engineering officials. The mission is the first operational one and will cap an 11-year development program that saw the shuttle fall more than two years behind schedule because of serious problems in two high-technology areas the engines and the heat-resistant surface materials. Columbia began its test-launch program 19 months ago, completing four successful flights. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) The space shuttle went into its final countdown today for Thursday's fifth flight.

With two satellites aboard, the ship was finally ready to do the job for which it was built ferrying cargo into space. "This has been a long time in the planning," said shuttle program manager Glynn Lunney. "We're ready to go." Weather, NASA's inevitable nemesis, provided the only uncertainty. Skies were fine for launch at Kennedy Space Center here, but rain was falling on the first-choice emergency landing site in California's Mojave Desert. One official described the Mojave as "the only desert in the world that when you really want to use it, it floods." A one-day delay could occur if landing conditions were not adequate for a launch-day emergency.

Columbia was scheduled to blast off at 4:19 a.m. PST Thursday, with four astronauts aboard, the most ever assembled for a space launch. Two companies, Satellite Business Systems of McLean, and Telesat Canada are paying at least $17 million for launch services. The cost of the flight is estimated by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration at $200 million. The countdown was going smoothly today; the Shuttle astronauts fit, ready for trip The five-day mission, which is scheduled for takeoff shortly after 3 a.m.

PST Thursday and landing early next Tuesday at Edwards Air Force Base in California, will mark the first time that four astronauts have been launched into space at once. Ground crews worked through a planned eight-hour rest period Tuesday morning to correct a problem in one of the Columbia's helium regulators that had delayed the countdown by nine hours Monday. They also had to replace a radar altimeter that failed during pre-f light tests. Officials said the countdown is now back on schedule for Thursday's launch, and that no further mechanical problems are expected. But they are keeping a wary eye on the weather, which could pose a problem if the moderate cloud cover now hanging over Cape Canaveral does not disperse by launch time.

Officials said the clouds would have been enough to prevent a launch had it been scheduled for Tuesday, but noted that forecasts call for clearer skies by Thursday. Gannett News Service CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. The four-man crew of the space shuttle Columbia pronounced themselves and their spacecraft fit Tuesday as they arrived at Kennedy Space Center to prepare for Thursday's historic first commercial launch. The astronauts, traveling in twin T-38 jets, flew to. Florida from their training quarters at Johnson Space Center in Houston early Tuesday morning.

A separate aircraft ferried their families to the launch site. "We're looking forward to the launch," said Vance Brand, an Apollo veteran who will command the mission. "We're all trained and ready and we hear the ship is ready." Added Marine Col. Robert Overmyer, the Columbia's pilot, "We're tickled to be here and we hope we put on a good show for you." Also making the flight are mission specialists Joseph Allen and William Lenoir, who will deploy two communications satellites owned by the reusable shuttle's first paying customers, Satellite Business Systems and Telesat Canada. A Vtftrnet Communtcatwne Company PARENTS FOR L.E.A.R.N.

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