Shuttle tanking test scheduled next week

NASA has approved a hydrogen fuel "tanking test" with the space shuttle Atlantis external tank on the launch pad no earlier than Dec. 18 to help solve engine cutoff (ECO) sensor problems that have grounded the next International Space Station assembly mission until early January (DAILY, Dec. 10)...

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