Frances Damages NASA Space Center
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Hurricane Frances did more damage to the Kennedy Space Center than any other storm in history, tearing an estimated 1,000 exterior panels from the Vehicle Assembly Building and leaving a checkerboard of holes, officials said Monday.
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Hurricane Frances did more damage to the Kennedy Space Center than any other storm in history, tearing an estimated 1,000 exterior panels from a giant building where spaceships are assembled, officials said Monday.
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FORT PIERCE, Fla.  - Hurricane Frances' wind and water hit sections of southern Florida with fire-hose force Sunday, submerging entire roadways and tearing off rooftops even as the storm weakened and crawled inland with heavy rains in its wake. Four million people remained without power.
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Hurricane Frances' wind and water whacked swaths of Florida with fire-hose force Sunday, submerging entire roadways and tearing off rooftops even as it weakened to a tropical storm and crawled inland with heavy rain. More than 5 million people lost power.
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Hail has damaged the external fuel tank of the Space Shuttle Atlantis, leaving the status of the planned March 15 launch unclear, a US space agency spokeswoman said Tuesday.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  - Jeanne was the third  hurricane in six weeks to damage Florida's Kennedy Space Center  but NASA would not say on Monday whether the damage will set  back plans to resume space shuttle flights next March.
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NASA Administrator Sean O&#39;Keefe issued a statement regarding the damage left behind at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in the wake of Hurricane Frances.
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By Traci Watson  A severe hailstorm in February pockmarked space shuttle Atlantis's fuel tank so badly that NASA didn't know whether it could be fixed. Then came the "portable pencil sharpener" to save the day.
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The hailstorm, which caught the shuttle at the launching pad, caused âthe worst damage we have ever seen,â the shuttle program manager said.
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COCOA, Fla.  - Hurricane Frances smothered eastern  Florida on Sunday with drenching rains and fierce winds that  ripped away roofs, trees and boat moorings and cut power to 1.3  million homes and businesses.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - Damage to the space shuttle Atlantis in a ferocious hail storm means NASA will not be able to launch the next shuttle mission in March as planned, the U.S. space agency said on Tuesday.
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maggeth writes &quot;In an update to a previous story, NASA damage assessment teams have begun work at the Kennedy Space Center, which was hit by Hurricane Frances.
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By Wire Reports  Video:  Tiny Parts Lost in Space     Video:  Passenger Disrupts Cross-Country Flight     CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
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By Traci Watson  NASA is learning the hard way that December storms can be just as much of an obstacle to launching a space shuttle as the summer thunderclouds that foiled two liftoffs earlier this year.
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All three remaining space shuttles weathered Hurricane Frances without apparent damage, after the cyclone weakened before hitting the Florida coast south of Cape Canaveral.
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A cold front that  spawned killer tornadoes in the southeastern United States is  heading to Florida where it may stall NASA's plans to launch  its first space shuttle mission of the year on Thursday,  officials said on Wednesday.
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NASA says Hurricane Jeanne caused minimal damage to the Kennedy Space Center. But the storm put space shuttle workers even further behind in their effort to resume.