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RAINFALL MONITORING: Report Bucks NASA's Plan to End Mission
Andrew Lawler
The forecast for an aging NASA spacecraft that keeps tabs on tropical rainfall turned stormy last week when NASA officials insisted that they may have to shut it down as early as this summer.