Tapes show Spartan 201 worked despite control problem

Engineers working with recording tapes retrieved from the Spartan 201 scientific spacecraft have found that it performed planned scientific observations despite an attitude control problem. The crew of the Space Shuttle Endeavour found the free-flyer spinning slowly, its batteries apparently drained...

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