From: utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!eagle!mhtsa!alice!sjb
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Title: Simulated Liftoff Successful
Article-I.D.: alice.1394
Posted: Tue Jan 11 15:20:57 1983
Received: Wed Jan 12 09:10:28 1983

The Challenger underwent a successful simulated lift off this
morning at 1104 EST.  The mock launch came after a half-day
test countdown in which the computers on board and those in
the control room simulated launch conditions.