Shuttle Columbia lifts off after delay on Wake Shield reflight
NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia carried the Wake Shield Facility to orbit yesterday for its third exercise in enhancing the vacuum of space to make ultra-pure semiconductor wafers, flying without apparent mishap after safety delays for weather and checkouts of the insulation on its solid-fuel boosters...
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