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| Shuttle engineer dies in fall on NASA launch pad. |
| 2011-03-14 |
| James D. Vanover, died after a fall this morning at Launch Pad 39A, where the space shuttle Endeavour is being prepared for an upcoming launch. Vanover was a swing-bridge engineer who had worked at Kennedy Space Center for 28 years, first with Lockheed Martin, and then for 15 years with United Space Alliance, the current general contractor for the space shuttle program. |
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