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Satellites Will Snap Shuttle Pictures.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, March, 2003

By Gwyneth K. Shaw, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Mar. 29--WASHINGTON -- Military satellites will routinely take pictures of space shuttles on future flights, under a new agreement between NASA and the National Imagery and Mapping Agency.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration chief Sean O'Keefe said Friday that the debate over whether agency officials should have pursued such photos of the doomed shuttle Columbia persuaded him to make the change.

"The fact is, we'll never end up settling this debate because we don't have it [photos]. We've decided to remedy the ambiguity," O'Keefe said.

"This is a very clear statement -- whenever you have the opportunity, please take it."

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