From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhtsa!alice!sjb
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Title: Power Failure at Mission Control
Article-I.D.: alice.1113
Posted: Sun Nov 14 09:45:18 1982
Received: Tue Nov 16 00:48:31 1982

A small part of Mission Control experienced a power failure last
night around 2300 EST.  The reason was not as exciting as the
one Phil posted, unfortunately.  The reason released by NASA for
the outage was a small electrical fire on the first floor of the
building.  The loss of power was confined to a small part of Mission
Control and it was very quickly fixed.  Among the controls affected
was the monitor that shows where the Columbia is in orbit; that function,
along with the others affected, was switched to the backup control
center at the Goddard Space Center.