[net.space] Debris, shuttle woes tied

WBD.TYM%OFFICE-2@sri-unix.UUCP (12/23/83)

From:  William Daul - Tymshare Inc.  Cupertino CA  <WBD.TYM@OFFICE-2>

>From the PENISULA TIMES TRIBUNE (thursday, Dec. 22)

   LOS ANGELES -- A sliver of solder and another speck of junk floating in 
   weightlessness apparently short-circuited computer circuits on the space 
   shuttle Columbia, delaying its landing for eight hours Dec. 8, according to 
   IBM, the manufacturer of the computers.