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A lightning hits the shuttle "Atlantis": the launch has been postponed

Washington, Usa - The take-off maybe Tuesday, but there's the hurricane "Ernesto" that is passing trough Florida in these hours

The hurricane "Ernesto" is causing lot of troubles to the Nasa technicians engaged into the launch of "Atlantis" shuttle, that was scheduled for yesterday at 04:30pm (local time), (see for details AVIONEWS), but it’s been postponed because of a lightning that last Friday hit the launching ramp. So the problems seem to never end for "Atlantis": after the launch was already postponed for two frayed s...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 147617
Rome, Italy, 08/28/2006 13:15
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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