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Last preparatives for the launch of the Atlantis shuttle

Cape Canaveral, USA - Expected for today at 14:28 local time

The operations of supplying of the external reservoir of the shuttle Atlantis with about 535.000 gallons (2.025.000 litres) of hydrogen liquid and oxygen, the propellant that will develop three principal motors of the shuttle during the throwing, have today been completed. There have not been technical problems during this phase. Special pumps will keep on filling up the reservoirs to substitute the...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1111503
Rome, Italy, 11/16/2009 16:28
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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