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.