Trapped Chile Miners Eat NASA Diet, Prep for Rescue
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The 33 miners in Chile will spend the next few days in tunnels almost half a mile underground eating a special diet recommended by NASA and doing exercises designed to aid their rescue by midweek.
One of three drills working on the rescue broke through yesterday to tunnels where the miners have been trapped since Aug. 5. Rescuers this morning started installing a metal casing on the walls along one-sixth of the 623-meter (2,040-foot) shaft and tomorrow will install equipment to start bringing miners to the surface by Oct. 13, Mining Minister Laurence Golborne told reporters today.