Chandra Deployed
NASA is investigating two serious malfunctions during the launch of space shuttle Columbia, a hydrogen leak that could have forced a risky return-to-launch-site abort and an electrical short circuit that greatly increased the risk to the orbiter and crew if other critical failures had occurred...
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