sjb (11/14/82)
A small part of Mission Control experienced a power failure last night around 2300 EST. The reason was not as exciting as the one Phil posted, unfortunately. The reason released by NASA for the outage was a small electrical fire on the first floor of the building. The loss of power was confined to a small part of Mission Control and it was very quickly fixed. Among the controls affected was the monitor that shows where the Columbia is in orbit; that function, along with the others affected, was switched to the backup control center at the Goddard Space Center.