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Board to NASA: Find Way to Fix Shuttle in Space.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, June, 2003
By Gwyneth K. Shaw, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jun. 28--WASHINGTON -- The board investigating the shuttle Columbia accident recommended Friday that NASA find a way to allow astronauts to check for damage to the orbiter -- and fix it -- while in space.
The suggestion is not unexpected -- the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has been working on a solution since March. But it is a tough problem, and the board said it must be addressed before another shuttle is launched.
Plans for an on-orbit repair system for the tiles that cover the shuttle's belly were jettisoned not long after Columbia's first mission, in 1981.
Until recently, there has never been serious consideration about how...
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