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From: alb@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Simulated Countdown
Message-ID: <2235@alice.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Oct-83 20:03:53 EDT
Article-I.D.: alice.2235
Posted: Tue Oct 11 20:03:53 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 13-Oct-83 03:26:00 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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NASA crews today took the Columbia through a simulated
countdown after a two hour delay due to a fuel leak.
The test, in which both the oxygen and hydrogen sections
of the external tank were to be filled with super-cold
liquid fuels, was instead carried out with only the oxygen
tank filled with liquid oxygen and the hydrogen tank filled
with gaseous hydrogen; the problem was due to a leak in
a hydrogen fuel line.