UPGRADED SHUTTLE ENGINES GROUNDED
NASA managers effectively have grounded their $1-billion-plus, upgraded space shuttle main engines after discovering high-cycle fatigue cracks in one of the engines' follow-on fuel pumps. The managers decided that engines with the Block 1 upgrade should not be flown until engineers fix the cause of...
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