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Atlantis' first part mission developed as expected

Cape Canaveral, USA - USD 390m girder was wired up

It was surely an interesting walk but also a very hard engagement what the two american astronauts have carried on yesterday, 240 km over the Pacific. After the first minutes of an astonishing emotional impact in the space immensity, the cosmonauts carried out, without any problems at all, the first part of the mission: the dock of a 107-meters-long, 14-tonne girder that is going to be part of a structure...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 34653
Rome, Italy, 10/11/2002 13:45
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