From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npois!alice!sjb Newsgroups: net.columbia Title: **LAUNCH** Article-I.D.: alice.727 Posted: Sun Jun 27 11:33:07 1982 Received: Tue Jun 29 06:46:04 1982 Columbia achieved its first ever on time launch today at 100 EDT. Sorry for being so late with this, but what good is it if I don't watch five or ten replays? On the way up, I heard in the background someone at mission control say: ``APU thermal problem can also be ignored'' I am assuming that the APU's overheated again, which is coming to be a normal occurrence, but I'm not sure.