NASA Grounds Future Flights

July 28, 2005


NASA said Wednesday that it will ground future shuttle flights because a chunk of insulating foam flew off Discovery's fuel tank during liftoff, just as it did in Columbia's doomed mission. This time, the foam apparently missed the spacecraft.

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