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Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: Space Shuttle Mystery Partially Solved, NASA Says


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Space shuttle Atlantis sits on pad 39a in Cape Canaveral, Florida, at sunset after a launch was scrubbed December 9, 2007, due to faulty liquid hydrogen sensors.

NASA engineers this week announced that a bad connector was responsible for the erratic fuel-gauge readings.

The next launch will take place only after the problem has been fully fixed, a NASA official said.

Photograph by Paul Kizzle/AP