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Subj: Shuttles won't fly again this year, lawmakers say
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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 124.10 From AMSAT HQ
Silver Spring, MD. May 4, 2003
To All Radio Amateurs
BID: $ANS-124.10
NASA's remaining three shuttles won't return to flight this year as the
agency had optimistically planned, members of Congress said Thursday.
That means NASA likely will have to rely again in February on a Russian
Soyuz spacecraft to take another fresh crew to the International Space
Station.
After meeting privately for an hour with retired Adm. Hal Gehman, chairma=
n
of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, two senior House lawmakers
emerged to predict NASA's shuttles would remain grounded for some time gi=
ven
the scope of work the independent panel is likely to recommend this summe=
r.
[ANS thanks Florida Today for the above information]
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