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The latest news from space-faring countries, agencies, industry and academia   ·   Saturday 25 May 2013, 11.24pm GMT   ·   Nº 1759

NASA Finds New Cracks on Space Shuttle’s Fuel Tank

2 January 2011

NASA technicians have wrapped up a series of X-ray image scans on the space shuttle Discovery’s external fuel tank, but several new cracks were detected on three of the beleaguered tank’s support beams, agency officials said.







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