NATION : Shuttle Check Is ‘Squeaky Clean’
<i> From Times wire service</i> s
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. —
With ideal weather expected, engineers breezed through a “squeaky clean” countdown today for the shuttle Atlantis’ launch Friday to fire a robot mapping probe to Venus in the first such U.S. project in 11 years.
NASA’s mission management team, a panel set up in the wake of the Challenger disaster to improve the agency’s launch decision process, met to review the status of Atlantis’ processing and to debate last-minute technical issues.
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