NASA Reschedules Columbia Launch
From Times Wire Reports
The launch of the first U.S. spaceflight to be commanded by a woman was rescheduled for early Thursday at Cape Canaveral, Fla., after a hydrogen-leak scare aborted the initial countdown. A reading indicating a dangerous buildup of hydrogen in space shuttle Columbia’s engine compartment turned out to be wrong, and it would have been safe to fly, launch director Ralph Roe said. “We’ll be ready whenever,” said shuttle commander Eileen Collins.
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