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NASA is moving ahead with plans to redesign a part of the space shuttle
external fuel tank that investigators believe played a critical role in
the Columbia accident. The shuttle program will soon begin manufacturing
and installing an improved bipod fitting, which connects the external fuel
tank to the shuttle during launch.
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Soon after orbital insertion, Cassini returned its best look yet at
heavily cratered Mimas. The enormous crater at the top of this image,
named Herschel, is about 80 miles wide and 6 miles deep.
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Once dismissed as a nautical myth, freakish ocean waves that rise as tall
as ten-story apartment blocks have been accepted as a leading cause of
large ship sinkings. Results from the European Space Agency's ERS
satellites helped establish the widespread existence of these 'rogue'
waves and are now being used to study their origins.
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NASA is making available its resources and facilities as part of a program
to provide the first-ever science camp for blind middle- and high-school
students from all over the United States.
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of the Apollo Moon landings.
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