From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!sjb
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Title: Countdown Begins
Article-I.D.: alice.1070
Posted: Sun Nov  7 09:41:33 1982
Received: Mon Nov  8 01:00:27 1982

The call to stations was announce on time at 0300 EST today
and with that began the countdown to the launch of STS-5,
scheduled for 0719 EST on Thursday.  The first piece of
business on the countdown agenda is the checking of the
Columbia's electrical systems.