NATION IN BRIEF : TEXAS : Space Station Shields Reworked for Debris
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NASA engineers have been forced to redesign shields for the space station because there’s so much junk littering space, officials said. New, stronger shields are expected to provide two to three times more protection against orbiting debris, said Eric Christiansen, manager of a hyper-velocity laboratory at Johnson Space Center in Houston.
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