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S81-30953 (13 April 1981) --- With one of the two expended solid rocket boosters from the launch of the space shuttle Columbia in tow, the recovery ship UTC Liberty heads toward the Trident Submarine Basin at Port Canaveral, south of NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC). The ship, built especially for the task of recovering expended boosters and their parachutes, is bound for ran overnight berth in the submarine basin, before continuing tomorrow toward recovery facilities at KSC.