Consequences on the ground from the Columbia accident
Consequences on the ground from the Columbia accident could have been far worse. NASA General Counsel Paul Pastorek told a space insurance conference in Rome last week that only 66 claims for barely $500,000 in damages had been filed to date--a small sum considering the amount of debris that rained...
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