NASA digging out from shuttle woes (Reuters)
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Technicians including Mike Miller (R) prepare to perform 'pull tests' by placing weight on gap fillers on the space shuttle Atlantis at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida November 15, 2005. The gap fillers are cloth strips that cushion the space shuttle's ceramic heat shields. A protruding gap filler, which is about the width of a business card, could interfere with how air flows around the shuttle during its supersonic descent through the atmosphere for landing and cause the ship to overheat. REUTERS/Joe Skipper
spacewalk during the last shuttle mission. |
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