Shuttle Upgrades `Crucial'
NASA is pressing ahead with plans for a string of technology upgrades for the space shuttle to ensure the 20-year-old hypersonic space transport remains safe and operational beyond 2010. The first shuttle flight was Apr. 12, 1981, 20 years to the day after Yuri Gagarin's first orbital flight...
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