The Region - News from June 8, 1987

Bad weather near Edwards Air Force Base again forced the Air Force to scrub a test firing of a Titan-34D rocket considered crucial to the resumption of U.S. military space launches. Thunderstorms, lightning and erratic winds continued to hammer the high desert near the test site, and Air Force Sgt. William Schwartz said that the earliest possible day for the test firing of the solid-fuel rocket would be Tuesday, “but no way before then because of the weather.” Ignition of the 90-foot booster, mounted nose-up on a test stand for the two-minute firing, had initially been scheduled for last Wednesday. But that was when the leading edge of a weather front moved in from the Pacific, and weather conditions have been marginal since.