Lightweight tank perfect on first flight; Ku-band a problem
NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery roared aloft safely Tuesday evening in the first flight of the "super lightweight" aluminum-lithium external tank developed for International Space Station logistics, but a critical communications link used for television and science data failed soon after Discovery...
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