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October 6, 1995
Kennedy Space Center

	The launch of Space Shuttle Columbia on STS-73 with the
USML-2 Laboratory Module has been scrubbed until no earlier than
Saturday due to concerns with Columbia’s nose wheel steering
hydraulic system.   Testing will be performed today to determine
whether bleeding the orbiter’s No. 1 hydraulic system will be
necessary.  Should this have to be performed, launch will then occur
on Sunday.  This is expected to be known this afternoon.  The launch
window on Saturday opens at 9:41 a.m. and on Sunday at 9:42 a.m.  On
Saturday the chance of launch weather criteria violation is 40%.