The Nation - News from Jan. 3, 1986
The rocket steering problem that grounded the shuttle Columbia last month 15 seconds before launching has been traced to a tiny electrical component that led ground computers astray, officials said. National Aeronautics and Space Administration engineers, meanwhile, were back at work readying the twice-delayed shuttle for blastoff from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a five-day mission. The countdown begins at 10 p.m. PST today for a blastoff at 4:05 a.m. PST Monday, to kick off a 15-launching 1986 space schedule.
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