CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Radar instruments aboard the space shuttleEndeavour are strictly for science even though they reputedly aremore powerful than U.S. spy satellites, the shuttle's co-pilot saidTuesday.
Astronaut Kevin Chilton and five others were in the fourth dayof a research mission 138 miles above Earth.
Chilton fielded questions from 16 viewers of the C-SPAN cabletelevision network briefly Tuesday.
"This is strictly for scientific purposes, this radar - andthis whole laboratory, in fact," he told a caller who asked whetherthe instruments in Endeavour's cargo bay could hunt down hostileencampments around the world.
The National …
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