NASA Releases Columbia Debris for Research

NASA has released pieces of the space shuttle Columbia to The Aerospace Corp. in the first application of a new policy of using material from the lost orbiter for research. The El Segundo, Calif., laboratory will get eight pieces of graphite/epoxy honeycomb skins from various locations in and on the...

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