NASA grounds shuttle fleet to find answers to fuel line cracks

Wednesday, June 26, 2002

WASHINGTON -- Choosing safety over schedule, NASA has grounded the space shuttle fleet while engineers try to determine why tiny cracks are developing in the fuel line feeding the main rocket engines.

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