RESCUE MISSION
The next space shuttle crew will have another way home in case their orbiter suffers the same sort of thermal protection system damage on launch that destroyed Columbia on reentry. William W. Parsons, Jr., the shuttle program manager, says the crew of the second mission after return to flight will...
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