Shuttle managers decide to try three launches, two landings in six weeks

NASA will try to launch three of its four Space Shuttles in the six weeks beginning June 8, sneaking a satellite deployment flight in ahead of the first Shuttle/Mir docking mission to give the Mir crew time to reconfigure their space station to receive the Shuttle Atlantis. NASA has been processing...

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