News from the Cape

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The missions aboard the space shuttles Columbia and Atlantis started the summer shuttle season for 1992. The June 25th Columbia mission, which lasted for 14 days, was considered as the longest recorded shuttle flight. Similarly, the Atlantis mission was also a success even though the Tethered Satellite System experiments were not fully accomplished.

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News from the Cape

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The Orbiter Processing Facility hangar will be used for the seven-day flight of Discovery space shuttle. Meanwhile, 400 Kennedy Space Center employees have been laid off due to NASA budget cuts. About 300 of the employees are from Lockheed Space Operations Co.

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News from the Cape

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Eight space shuttle missions are planned by the US in 1993. The 1993 shuttle flight schedules and the missions and payload involved are presented and discussed.

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