The flight tested the heat shield. The shield protected the spacecraft from the great heat produced when it returned through the Earth's atmosphere.

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At the site of the crash, investigators spent hours combing through the mangled remains of the aircraft to find the plane's black box, flight-data recorder.

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Connerton said Brokaw was a key reason he was able to make it through flight school in Jacksonville, Fla.

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If you're traveling and expect to use Maps to navigate, Google to scope out enjoyable things to do, your email app to keep in touch, Instagram to brag, Foursquare to keep tabs, Facebook to kill time and your cloud drive of choice to sift through flight and hotel confirmation PDFs, it'll be dangerously easy to exceed 100MB in a day.

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Halfway through the flight another Delta attendant came through pushing a cart and inquired about my beverage of choice.

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