Tank cracks would have delayed U.S. Station launch
Tiny cracks discovered during x-ray testing of NASA's new aluminum- lithium super-lightweight Space Shuttle external tank would have made it difficult for the U.S. to meet its schedule to launch the first U.S. element for the International Space Station, even if Russian funding problems had not...
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