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March 10, 2010

Deep space antenna getting $1.25M repair

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The deep space antenna that relayed Neil Armstrong's famous “one giant leap for mankind” declaration from the moon to a rapt American audience will be offline for eight months for repair.

Work begins this week to replace a steel donut-shaped bearing on the aging 230-foot-wide dish at the NASA Deep Space Network site at Goldstone Dry Lake in the Mojave Desert.


 
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