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From: alb@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: False Alarm Aboard Shuttle
Message-ID: <2172@alice.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 31-Aug-83 19:44:56 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 31 19:44:56 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 1-Sep-83 08:41:59 EDT
Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill
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An alarm signalling possible fire conditions in an instrument bay
sounded aboard the Challenger today, but it turned out to be false.
The alarm, which senses gasses, tends to be overly sensitive, and
has gone off before, on the prototype shuttle Enterprise, but never
in flight.