ENGINE GLITCH RESCHEDULES SHUTTLE'S PIGGYBACK RIDE HOME FOR THURSDAY.Byline: Jim Skeen Daily News Staff Writer After a planned flight was scrapped over the weekend when an engine fire warning light came on, NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. will try again Thursday to ferry space shuttle Atlantis back to Florida. NASA Dryden Flight Research Center The Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC), located inside Edwards Air Force Base, is an aeronautical research center operated by NASA. On March 26, 1976 it was named in honor of the late Hugh L. workers are changing one of the engines on the modified Boeing 747 shuttle carrier after a flight Saturday was cut short when the crew saw an engine fire warning light. Dryden workers found evidence of heat damage, officials said. ``They found some smudging smudging (smuˑ·jing), n in Native American medicine, the ritual of purifying the location, patient, healer, helpers and ritual objects by using the smoke obtained by burning sacred and some wire insulation that was heat damaged,'' NASA spokesman Cam Martin said. The fire warning indicator light came on Saturday about five minutes after the jumbo jet took off from Edwards carrying the spacecraft piggyback piggyback 1. A broker trading in his or her personal account after trading in the same security for a customer. The broker may believe the customer has access to privileged information that will cause the transaction to be profitable. 2. . The right side inboard Built in. Inboard devices are built into the main unit. Contrast with outboard. See onboard. engine was shut down and the shuttle carrier, piloted by former space shuttle astronaut Gordon Fullerton and Tom McMurtry, returned to Edwards at 1:10 p.m. Diverted by bad weather in Florida, Atlantis landed at Edwards on March 31 after a nine-day mission. NASA prefers to land in Florida to save the $1 million in expense to ferry the orbiters back across the country. Edwards normally is used as a landing site when the weather is bad in Florida, for emergencies and for orbiters making their first flights. |
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