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ITEM 1 Shuttle Hail Damage (replay)
Space Shuttle Discovery sustained hail damage from a severe weekend
storm.
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ITEM 2 Synthetic Vision (replay)
Item 2A Cockpit Technologies Animation
NASA is developing two innovative cockpit technologies -- Aviation
Weather Information to give pilots timely moving weather map displays
and Synthetic Vision to give pilots an electronic picture of terrain,
traffic and obstacles.
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ITEM 3 Hubble Finds Lenses in Space (replay)
The NASA Hubble Space Telescope survey of the sky has uncovered exotic
patterns, rings, arcs and crosses that are optical mirages produced by a
gravitational lens, nature's equivalent to a giant magnifying glass in
space.
TOPIC: The excitement around Star Wars is not limited to movie fans.
Warp drives and intergalactic travel are science fiction in the movies,
but they're coming closer to reality at the Marshall Space Flight Center
in Huntsville, AL. Right now, engineers and scientists at the Marshall
Center -- where the future is now -- are developing space transportation
systems that could take us to galaxies far, far away.
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