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Cold Weather Delays Shuttle Launch
Written by Fraser Cain
Unusually cold weather in Florida has forced NASA to push back Thursday's launch of the space shuttle Columbia for its service mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. Officials are predicting temperatures only a few degrees above freezing, but significantly warmer on Friday (cold weather was a contributing factor to the Challenger disaster). During the 11-day flight, astronauts will add $172 million in upgrades to Hubble. (AP article)
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