Shuttle rollback reversed, but launch remains a challenge
In one of the major reversals - literally - in the history of the U.S. space program, Kennedy Space Center launch managers, based on an improved Ernesto storm forecast, reversed an early Aug. 29 decision to roll the space shuttle Atlantis back to the Vehicle Assembly Building and headed the vehicle...
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