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At Cape Canaveral last week, technicians prepared to move the shuttle Atlantis from its launching pad back to the vehicle-assembly building for repairs after failing to halt the seepage of hydrogen from a flange connecting fueling pipes to the spacecraft's giant external tank. As a result, all three...
Just before the end of the school year, Smith gives his students blank, 17- in. by 27-in. map boards and tells them to try again. They have about 14 hours of class time over several weeks to complete the job from memory. No tracing or reference material is allowed...
If the shuttle Atlantis lifts off this week from its Cape Canaveral launch pad as planned, astronomers will let out a long-delayed cheer. At last the Galileo mission, which has languished for more than a decade because of technical debates and the Challenger explosion, will be getting under way...
The next liftoff should come in April, when the shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to send a craft called Magellan on its way to Venus. The space probe will begin orbiting the planet next year, using radar to map its cloud-hidden surface. The best maps now in existence, compiled by...
Coats said the first two post-Challenger flights--by Discovery in September and Atlantis in December--"were important to show that we could fly the space shuttle again after the catastrophe."