Today could be decision day for Atlantis repair effort NASA officials today are expected to decide how engineers should go about repairing a hydraulic problem in shuttle Atlantis' steering system used during landing. Hanging in the balance is the scheduled April 24 launch to the International Space Station. Twenty years after the event, a Russian TV station has shown pictures of an accident at a Soviet cosmodrome in which nearly 50 died. Russian NTV International television said the accident occurred during the launch of a Vostok rocket on March 18, 1980. Spaceflight Now .
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