Cape Canaveral - The space shuttle, Columbia, left a solar observatory spinning dead in space after its deployment yesterday went badly wrong. The satellite had been due to fly free of the shuttle for two days to study the Sun's fiery outer atmosphere.
Shuttle satellite lost in space
Cape Canaveral - The space shuttle, Columbia, left a solar observatory spinning dead in space after its deployment yesterday …
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