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Push grows to let shuttle keep flying

Source: Orlando Sentinel Online

Cape Canaveral : FL : USA | about 1 year ago

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But there is growing pressure on the agency and its chief, Michael Griffin, to keep the shuttles flying beyond their scheduled retirement in 2010. Shuttle supporters on Capitol Hill, and now a group advising President-elect Barack Obama , are saying it should continue...

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