Backup NASA engineering unit recommends long STS-120 delay
A dispute among engineers over the safety of some of the reinforced carbon carbon (RCC) panels on the wing leading edges of the space shuttle Discovery could delay the upcoming International Space Station (ISS) assembly mission significantly - perhaps stalling it until next year. The "executive"...
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