TETHER LAUNCHED
NASA's shuttle Columbia lifted off Pad 39B here Feb. 22 on a 14-day flight to refly an ambitious experiment to test the dynamics of a electricity-generating tether in space. After configuring Columbia for orbit, the astronauts on board immediately began preparing to deploy the Tethered Satellite...
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