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Frequency of flights is probed after shuttle findings
At Cape Canaveral NASA probes flight cadence as Discovery returns from a mission amid concerns about a prior O ring burn on Atlantis. Engineers later confirm a separate booster joint leak caused Challenger's 1986 disaster. Discovery’s launch six days after Atlantis marks the shortest gap between U S human space flights, prompting inspections ahead of Endeavour’s August 5 science mission.
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