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Transcript: Space Shuttle: A Homemade Spaceship
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RENEE MONTAGNE
Morning Edition (NPR)
08-25-2006
Space Shuttle: A Homemade Spaceship
Host: RENEE MONTAGNE
Time: 10:00-11:00 AM
RENEE MONTAGNE, host:
The Space Shuttle Atlantis is on the launch pad. If all goes well, Sunday will mark the program's 116th mission. Each shuttle has some two million parts. They've been called one of the most complicated machines ever made. But these are also homemade spaceships, made by workers using X-acto knives and sewing needles.
NPR's David Kestenbaum reports.
DAVID KESTENBAUM reporting:
If you watched the first shuttle flight after the Columbia accident, you may remember that just before landing there was some concern about an insulation blanket that had ...