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NASA to televise Columbia remembrance
Cape Canaveral, Fla. (UPI) Jan 16, 2008 The U.S. space agency will televise the Astronauts Memorial Foundation's remembrance service honoring space shuttle Columbia's STS-107 crew. The ceremony marking the fifth anniversary of the Columbia accident will be 10 a.m. EST, Feb. 1 at the Space Mirror Memorial at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex at Cape Canaveral, Fla. Speakers during the ceremony will include NASA Administrator Michael Griffin; Evelyn Husband-Thompson, widow of U.S. Air Force Col. Rick Husband; Kennedy Space Center Director Bill Parsons; and NASA Associate Administrator for Space Operations William Gerstenmaier. Astronauts Memorial Foundation President Stephen Feldman will lead the service. Columbia's seven astronauts were lost during re-entry Feb. 1, 2003, following a 16-day science mission. The crew members were Husband, William McCool, Michael Anderson, David Brown, Kalpana Chawla, Laurel Clark and Ilan Ramon. NASA TV downlink information is available at http://www.nasa.gov/ntv. Related Links Shuttle at NASA Watch NASA TV via Space.TV Space Shuttle News at Space-Travel.Com
Shuttle Tank Connector Repairs Stretch Boundaries
Houston TX (SPX) Jan 16, 2008Innovation described the space shuttle when it first lifted off its launch pad 26 years ago, and it still requires innovations in other forms to keep it ready for space. The latest ingenuity came about as NASA was trying to figure out why a connector that passes electrical signals through the wall of the external tank was acting up. |
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