Falling UARS satellite meant for shuttle grab

Thursday, September 22, 2011 - 15:20 in Astronomy & Space

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Sept. 22 (UPI) -- A satellite expected to rain debris on the Earth Friday could have been retrieved but the option was discarded after the 2003 Columbia accident, NASA said.

Read the whole article on UPI

More from UPI

Latest Science Newsletter

Get the latest and most popular science news articles of the week in your Inbox! It's free!

Check out our next project, Biology.Net