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Shuttle Crash Impacts Buffalo, N.Y.-Area Firms.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 2003
By David Robinson, The Buffalo News, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 5--The destruction of Columbia could end up costing Moog Inc. millions this year, but officials at the Elma aerospace company and other local contractors who work on the space shuttle program said the disaster won't be a major blow to their business.
At Moog, which designed and made some of the flight control systems used in the shuttle and other components that control thrust on the orbiter's main engines and solid rocket boosters, the loss of Columbia could impact the $13 million in business it expected this year from the shuttle program.
While Moog officials expect most of that work will continue, they also acknowledged that some of that revenue could...
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