1.   Discovery and a crew of seven had been scheduled for a mid-October mission to the Hubble Space Telescope when the wiring problems surfaced.

2.   Filo tells the Hong Kong team about the wiring problems, but they already know.

3.   Originally set to fly last September, the mission was delayed while NASA inspected the entire four-shuttle fleet for electrical wiring problems.

4.   Others said they were promised service and then told, on the day of installation, that the service could not be installed because of in-home wiring problems.

5.   The actual lander was tested this way only once before launching, he said, but the problem did not show up because of a separate wiring problem.

6.   The final test flight of a missile interceptor had to be postponed because of a wiring problem with a transmitter used to monitor the test.

7.   The manual that came with the new thermostat offered no help as far as my particular wiring problem.

8.   The wiring problem was deemed so severe that NASA responded by grounding its entire fleet of four orbiters for wiring inspections, which took several weeks.

9.   The wiring problem emerged in April, when mechanics at Continental Airlines were called out to repair a fuel leak in a wing tank.

10.   Whether the cause of the wiring problem is genes or environment is the matter of some debate.