Hubble insulation dirty but undamaged after Goddard fire

Thermal insulation sheets for the Hubble Space Telescope were covered with soot but otherwise undamaged Thursday night when fire broke out in a laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. A Goddard spokesman said the "rigid blankets" of insulation for the orbiting telescope...

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