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Plan to extend shuttle life

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Space shuttle Discovery.

Cape Canaveral (U.S.): NASA’s staff will study whether the space shuttle programme could continue operating past its scheduled retirement in 2010, according to an internal e-mail sent this week.

The mail obtained by The Orlando Sentinel describes NASA Administrator Michael Griffin’s order for a study to determine if the shuttle could fly until 2015, when NASA’s next-generation space platform is expected to be completed. “We want to focus on helping bridge the gap of US vehicles travelling to the ISS as efficiently as possible,” wrote John Coggeshall, a NASA manager , in the mail. —AP

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