Senator seeking extra funding for shuttle upgrades
Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) said he has asked key lawmakers to add tens of millions of dollars for space shuttle upgrades to the pending fiscal 2003 NASA appropriations bill. Although Nelson, who flew on Columbia in 1986, did not specify which shuttle upgrades he would fund, he has argued for years...
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