Repair likely for shuttle's torn thermal protection blanket
NASA managers are likely to recommend a repair in space to the thermal protection blanket that was torn on space shuttle Atlantis during the STS-117 launch June 8. As Atlantis was closing in for a docking June 10 with the International Space Station (ISS) 210 statute miles above the east coast of...
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