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NASA maintains course on space waste.(News)

Waste News, March, 2003 by Beckley, Elizabeth Thompson

Byline: Elizabeth Thompson Beckley Aerospace experts agree there is only a minute likelihood that space waste could have caused the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia as it re-entered the earth's atmosphere on Feb. 1. And NASA is not altering course on its limiting of orbital debris generation as a result.

``There is no change in policy at this time,'' said Joe Gordon, a spokesman at NASA headquarters in Washington. NASA representatives declined to draw any conclusions or speculate about the final results of the ongoing work of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board. ``The chance that space debris had anything to do with this is almost zero,'' said Robert Culp, professor of aerospace engineering sciences at the University of...

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