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NASA, conference on status of the space shuttle "Discovery"

Houston, USA - Today live from Houston

As announced yesterday on its website, NASA today at 01:00 pm local time will hold, at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, USA, a conference to spread information about the status of the space shuttle "Discovery", whose departure has recently been delayed for the seventh time to allow the completion of researches and repair works. Yesterday, as we announced, the Space Shuttle Program managers met...

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Rome, Italy, 01/11/2011 14:04
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