Pershing Test-Fired;2 Others Put on Hold
Associated Press
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. —
Army troops launched one Pershing 2 missile successfully Wednesday but were unable to fire two others because flight batteries failed to switch on in the final seconds before liftoff, officials said.
The first missile darted off a launch pad and sent an unarmed warhead to an Atlantic Ocean target several hundred miles away, said Dave Harris, a spokesman for the Army Missile Command.
The countdown on two other missiles was aborted.
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