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NASA: Shuttle Fleet''s Safe Return to Flight Is Key to Space Station Progress.

Publication: General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony
Publication Date: 01-DEC-03
Format: Online - approximately 582 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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GAO-04-201T October 29, 2003

Since its inception, the International Space Station has experienced numerous problems that have resulted in significant cost growth and assembly schedule slippages. Following the Columbia accident and the subsequent grounding of the shuttle fleet in February...

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...2003, concerns about the future of the space station escalated, as the fleet has been key to the station's assembly and operations. In August 2003, the Columbia Accident Investigation Board drew a causal link between aggressive space station goals--supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's...

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