Next Shuttle Flight Could Slip Until April
NASA managers are assessing the danger if a tiny space shuttle engine valve were to crack and cause a leak of highly flammable gaseous hydrogen in the aft section of a space shuttle orbiter during ascent, and may slip the next shuttle mission until April. One of the valves failed during the most...
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