TETHERED SATELLITE RETURNS TO SPACE
The international crew of Columbia this week is to return to space an ambitious but troubled $440-million project to study how spacecraft--linked by a tether 11 naut. mi. long--behave in orbit. The crew's deployment of the U.S./Italian Tethered Satellite System is aimed at redeeming that payload...
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