The Nation - News from Oct. 6, 1985
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The crew of Atlantis conducted classified experiments and tested the brand new space shuttle as their military mission continued under a tight curtain of secrecy. For the second day, reporters heard no official word from or about the spaceship or the crew. Although most of the experiments have military applications, NASA reported there is one aboard that is not secret. It is a device to study damage that might be done to biological materials by cosmic rays.
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