KSC readies hurricane 'safe haven' for Shuttles on the pad

NASA used the Space Shuttle Atlantis Saturday to check out a new $4.8 million hurricane shelter for orbiter stacks caught on the pad in the face of approaching storms. Before starting Atlantis on its nine-hour trip to launch pad 39B, crews at Kennedy Space Center hauled the Shuttle on its tracked...

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