Jul 24 1993
From The Space Library
Computers halted Shuttle Discovery's countdown only 19 seconds before launch when they sensed a problem with one of the spaceship's two booster rockets. NASA said that the flight could not be rescheduled until sometime in the first week of August, after engineers had replaced a had hydraulic power unit in the booster. It was the second launch delay. Five astronauts aimed to deploy an experimental communications satellite during the mission. (RTW, Jul 24/93; AP, Jul 24/94; UPI, Jul 24/93; W Post, Jul 25/93; NY Times, Jul 25/93; W Times, Jul 25/93; USA Today, Jul 26/93)
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