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NASA Uses Mapping Software to Recover Debris from Space Shuttle.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, March, 2003
By Edward D. Murphy, Portland Press Herald, Maine Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 22--NASA is using DeLorme mapping software to help recover debris from the Columbia space shuttle.
DeLorme, based in Yarmouth, has provided the space agency with free copies of XMap 4.0, the company's latest professional mapping software, which is scheduled to be released for sale next week.
"We've learned our product is extremely useful for search and rescue and recovery efforts," said Geoffrey Ives, the director of professional sales for DeLorme.
Kelly Humphries, a spokesman for the Johnson Space Flight Center in Texas, confirmed that NASA is using the DeLorme program.
"I've seen DeLorme on quite a few of the computers down...
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