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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — En
gineers and scientists are having
more problems with the space shut
tle Columbia.
A five-day test began Monday
night, but trouble appeared before it
started when a simulated engine
failed to function. Space agency offi
cials said if they couldn’t get it going
in time, the make-believe launch
would be scrubbed.
The simulator was one of three in
stalled to replace the three on-board
rocket engines taken to Rockwell In
ternational’s Rocketdyne Division
plant at Canoga Park, Calif., for
modification.
Backup astronauts Air Force Col.
Joe Engle and Navy Cindr. Richard
Truly were scheduled to climb into
the cockpit of the space shuttle Col
umbia for the mock-flight late
Tuesday.
It was to be a repeat of a simulated
space flight conducted Dec. 20 by
the Columbia’s primary crew of John
Young and Navy Cmdr. John Crip-
pen. They plan another make-
believe launch Wednesday if all goes
well.
In that test, the Columbia will be
operated with electricity produced
by on-board fuel cells instead of out
side power.
The first space shuttle flight had
been scheduled for last November,
and is now set for June 30.
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Lebanese student who claimed three
men mistook him for an Iranian and
beat him unconscious has confessed
he made up the story because he was
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Afewfaith
ful fans returned to Graceland man
sion to mark what would have been
the late Elvis Presley’s 45th birthday
Tuesday.
The anniversary comes just sis
days before a hearing on malpractice
charges against Dr. George Nicho-
poulos, Presley’s friend and personal
physician for the last 11 years of his
life.
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memorate his birthday this year,
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