Second EVA likely, but Shuttle won't redeploy Spartan

NASA managers meeting late yesterday were leaning toward authorizing a second spacewalk on the STS-87 Space Shuttle mission so astronauts can check out techniques they will use to build the International Space Station, but they decided not to try again with the balky free-flyer that took the...

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