From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!sjb
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Title: Engine Test Firing
Article-I.D.: alice.1314
Posted: Sat Dec 18 09:26:56 1982
Received: Wed Dec 22 08:06:59 1982

In approximately 1.5 hours, at 1100 EST, the three main engines
of the Challenger will be test fired together at the pad.  At
the conclusion of a simulated countdown, designed to mimic the
actual one right down to hold time, the engines, each of which
provide 390,000 pounds of thrust, will be test fired together
(for the first time) for 20 seconds.  The launch is now scheduled
for 27 January.