From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!sjb
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Title: STS-6 Delayed Again
Article-I.D.: alice.1381
Posted: Fri Jan  7 19:55:44 1983
Received: Sat Jan  8 06:05:54 1983

NASA has decided to conduct another test firing of the Challenger's
main engines to see whether or not fixes to several minor leaks has
solved the hydrogen leak problem, first discovered after the 18
December test.  The new test firing will be held in late January,
and STS-6 will lift off ''around the end of February.''  The loading
of her cargo, a 5000 pound communications satellite, originally
scheduled for this weekend, was also delayed until after the new
test.