Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site alice.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!alice!alb From: alb@alice.UUCP (Adam L. Buchsbaum) Newsgroups: net.columbia Subject: Mock Countdown Delayed, Then Successful Message-ID: <2957@alice.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-Aug-84 23:58:44 EDT Article-I.D.: alice.2957 Posted: Wed Aug 15 23:58:44 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Aug-84 03:45:52 EDT Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 7 A mock countdown was delayed today by three hours when an engine computer refused to receive a program from ground computers. After the trouble had been solved, the countdown continued, ending with a simulated abort mimicking the engine cutoff abort in June. NASA said that the particular abort is a standard part of all simulated countdowns, and that is was just a coincidence that it mirrored the June abort.