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Tue Nov 10 19:57:41 1981
countdown progress
``The best thing you can say about this countdown is that there
is no news...This second attempt mirrors the first countdown --
it is just as smooth and tending to proceed ahead of schedule.''

So it is.  Technicians powered up the shuttle's fuel cells, working
right on schedule, sometimes ahead, up to a Thursday morning launch.