Oct 14 1993
From The Space Library
A last-minute glitch in a computer system that monitors Shuttle takeoffs to ensure people's safety on the ground forced NASA to scrub the launch of Shuttle Columbia on a medical research mission. NASA said that it would try for an October 15 launch, if the weather cooperated.
A small group of animal rights protesters carried signs at Gate 2 of the Kennedy Space Center on the day of the expected launch; they objected to the use of rats in experiments aboard the Columbia. (AP, Oct 14/93; UPI, Oct 14/93; NY Times, Oct 14/93, Oct 15/93; B Sun, Oct 15/93; W Post, Oct 15/93; P Inq, Oct 14/93, Oct 15/93; Fl Today, Oct 15/93; 0 Sen Star, Oct 15/93; USA Today, Oct 14/93)
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