Parachute Failures on Shuttle Boosters Caused Damage, Complications

Space shuttle engineers continue to analyze recovery-system malfunctions on both of the solid-fuel boosters that launched the orbiter Atlantis on the STS-122/1E mission last month. None of the problems involved flight safety or propulsion aspects of the ATK solid rocket motors, and both were towed...

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