From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!sjb
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Title: Countdown Proceeding Smoothly
Article-I.D.: alice.1085
Posted: Tue Nov  9 17:28:45 1982
Received: Wed Nov 10 05:21:06 1982

After NASA's decision to continue with the launch of STS-5
despite the helium leak, the countdown picked up again and
has been running smoothly since then.

For those of you wondering why the launch window for this
flight is so narrow (33 minutes) in comparison with other
shuttle shots, one of the new variables included in it
is the fact that the shuttle must be at a specific point
at a specific time to launch the two satellites.