
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Terry Kent (left), United Space Alliance, and James Silviano (right), NASA, inspect the range safety cable between the external tank and solid rocket boosters (SRB) on Space Shuttle Discovery. The cable, which relays a redundant emergency destruction signal between the SRBs in the unlikely event of a contingency, was damaged during close-out operations and is being replaced. Discovery's processing schedule leads to a target launch date of Dec. 6
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KSC-99pp1290
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November 9, 1999
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Kennedy Space Center, FL
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