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[i]NASA engineers are examining seals known as O-rings that go between space shuttle booster rockets because recent batches have shown a higher-than-usual amount of unmixed rubber. ...NASA engineers are checking to make sure the O-rings in Endeavour's boosters aren't part of the batches under examination, but they don't expect them to be, NASA spokesman Rob Navias said today. The investigation was first reported by USA Today. "It's not serious," Navias said. "We fully expect it will have no impact on launch." "It's a paper chase that we typically do when another batch of hardware shows an issue that we want to take a look at a little more carefully... We don't even know if the O-rings in question are bad," he said.[/i]
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