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NASA, start today changes on the Discovery sleepers

Cape Canaveral, USA - They will last seven days

NASA announced on its website today, January 4, 2011, that its engineers at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, USA, will begin to make the first changes on the 34 support beams positioned on the external tank of the space shuttle Discovery: the insertion of metal parts over the top of the stringers will make these increase their support's ability. At the same time, using a backscatter device,...

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Rome, Italy, 01/04/2011 17:50
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