It appears that there was an time-zone conversion error in the Florida Today story: http://www.flatoday.com/026.htm (note corrected URL) This is from the Vandenburg Launch Schedule: http://mocc.vafb.af.mil/launchsched.asp ] Pegasus ] WIRE ] 03/05/99 02:51Z to 03/05/99 03:02Z ] (03/04/99 6:51:00 PM Local) That's 6:51 PM on March 4 Pacific Standard Time, which is 2:51 on March 5 UTC. The WIRE home page is saying "March 4 at 7:00 PM (PST)". http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/wire/index.html Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA