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Space Shuttle Maintenance

Space Shuttle Maintenance
Aerospace engineers perform an overhaul of the space shuttle Columbia in a hangar at the Kennedy Space Center. Reusable space vehicles are carefully inspected before and after each flight, and they are periodically overhauled to ensure that all systems are operating at peak efficiency.
Roger Ressmeyer/Corbis
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