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| | SPACE.com -- NASA Securing Space Center for Hurricane Ivan |
 | | A front-end loader sits atop a pile of debris from the Vehicle Assembly Building, rear, Tuesday, Sept 7, 2004, at Cape Canaveral, Fla. Hurricane Frances tore some 820 panels from the building. |
 | | CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) _ Still picking up the pieces after Hurricane Frances, NASA braced on Thursday for the even more menacing Ivan, hurriedly moving mangled strips of aluminum siding and exposed equipment into the hangar that once housed the wreckage of space shuttle Columbia. |
 | | Right after the Columbia catastrophe on Feb. 1, 2003, the charred, twisted remnants of the shuttle were taken from Texas and Louisiana to the huge, sturdy hangar near the shuttle landing strip, where the pieces were laid out on the floor to assist in the accident investigation. |
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