From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!sjb
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Title: NASA Goes Ahead With Countdown
Article-I.D.: alice.1084
Posted: Tue Nov  9 15:33:26 1982
Received: Wed Nov 10 02:07:06 1982

Bypassing flight rules that call for a mission scrub in the
case of a shuttle backup system failure, NASA today put
the countdown back on schedule by saying that the helium
leak in a regulator was small enough so as not to affect
normal (and above normal) operations.

Also today, workers loaded the Columbia's fuel cells with
oxygen and hydrogen.