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NASA Delays Shipment of Chandra to KSC

January 20, 1999

NASA announced that it will delay the planned shipment of the Chandra X-ray Observatory from TRW in Redondo Beach, CA to the Kennedy Space Center, FL. The postponement will allow TRW to evaluate and correct a potential problem with several printed circuit boards in the observatory's command and data management system.

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