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Launching the Olympics

Friday, July 27, 2012 12:48
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On only the third mission to the International Space Station in May 2000, space shuttle Atlantis launched a small package tied to the Summer Olympics — not the 2000 Games in Sydney but rather the 2012 Olympics beginning on Friday. Twelve years later the contents of that payload are now an unusual example of Olympics-related memorabilia and a reminder of how the Summer Games and NASA could have shared space.

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