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Wed Nov 4 20:21:35 1981
delay
Officials now say that the delay in launch of the
shuttle will be around a week or so. It won't be
for a few days until engineers can even examine the
problem. The choices are: (1) Fix the APU units
already on board or (2) install back up APU's.
Irony: If the commands to belay the computer hold
at T-9:00 of the first countdown had come about
two seconds earlier, the APU pressure problem would
never have been noticed. Officials now think that
the problem wouldn't have threatened the launch and
some say not even the landing, but decided it was
the ``prudent'' thing to do to call it off.
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