NATION IN BRIEF : FLORIDA : NASA Delays Liftoff of Shuttle Columbia
The space shuttle Columbia will not be ready for a scheduled blastoff Monday on a 10-day flight, but officials at Kennedy Space Center said they are confident the shuttle will make it into orbit before Christmas Eve. For launch Monday, Columbia’s countdown would have to begin Friday. But Larry Ellis, the NASA manager in charge of the shuttle’s launch processing, said work at the launch pad would not be completed in time. The goal of the mission is the launch of a communications satellite and the retrieval of a scientific satellite.
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