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Article: NASA Scours 32 Extra Seconds of Raw Data from Shuttle Columbia.

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February 5, 2003
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By Eric Berger, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Feb. 5--Even as space shuttle Columbia streaked across Texas on Saturday morning, its vital information continued to be routed thousands of miles into space before beaming back to Earth.

And as the signals bounced to the ground, they were first received at a remote facility about 70 miles north of El Paso before being sent to Houston.

When Mission Control's screens froze just before 8 a.m. and NASA lost contact with Columbia, it didn't mean the downlink between the space shuttle and the ground stopped. The shuttle sent another 32 seconds of data, but it was too garbled ...

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