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Nasa: Atlantis takes off on next October 2

Cape Canaveral, Usa - "If weather is good"

According to National Aeronautics and Space Agency (Nasa) officials, Atlantis shuttle will take off to space on next October 2. "If weather is good, Atlantis is ready to come back to service as scheduled because the micro-cracks on the pipes where liquid hydrogen runs through have been soldered". The other spacecraft by Nasa - Columbia, Discovery and Endeavour - will anyway to wait a bit more to take...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 33624
Rome, Italy, 09/19/2002 10:56
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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