Train carrying NASA shuttle rocket parts derails in Alabama
AFP, May, 2007
MIAMI (AFP) — A train carrying solid rocket booster parts for NASA's space shuttle program derailed in Alabama, injuring six people, but none of the material spilled, officials said.
"There was a train wreck, six injuries," a spokesman for the Alabama Emergency Management Agency said.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said the train was carrying parts for the solid fuel rocket boosters used in space shuttles.
NASA spokesman Allard Beutel said the train was traveling from Utah, ...