New Fuel Tank Brings NASA Closer to Shuttle Launch
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A redesigned space shuttle fuel tank arrived at NASA's main assembly hangar on Thursday in what managers said was a first tangible sign that the two-year effort to return the fleet to flight following the Columbia disaster is nearing its end.
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NEW ORLEANS -- A redesigned 27-ton fuel tank for the space shuttle Discovery is on its way to Cape Canaveral today, traveling by barge across the Gulf of Mexico.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A fuel sensor that has given NASA headaches in the past began acting up early Friday morning as space shuttle Atlantis' crew prepared for liftoff.The agency was working to fix the problem and continuing with launch preparations, NASA spokesman Bruce Buckingham said.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - Technicians began filling shuttle Discovery's fuel tank for a launch attempt at 11:38 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, officials said.
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NASA is relying on an overhaul of the space shuttle&#39;s towering external fuel tank to eliminate dangerous debris that triggered the fatal breakup of Columbia nearly two years ago, space agency officials said Monday.
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NASA has refitted a space shuttle fuel tank to decrease the likelihood of the debris problem that doomed the shuttle Columbia and its seven astronauts from happening again, agency officials said on Tuesday.
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The next effort to launch the space shuttle Atlantis could come as early as Jan. 24, but will probably slip into February as engineers test and repair a suspect fuel sensor connector, a NASA official said.
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NASA said Thursday that on June 8 it would attempt to launch the US shuttle Atlantis to the orbiting International Space Station, a mission that has been delayed since March due to fuel tank damage.
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HOUSTON â A first look at video from space shuttle Atlantis' external fuel tank revealed no signs of damage to the spacecraft's heat-resistant underbelly, NASA mission managers said Friday.
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NASA managers are targeting a Feb. 7 launch date for the space shuttle Atlantis as engineers prepare to replace an electrical connector in the spacecraft's external fuel tank.
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NASA said Friday that all systems on the space shuttle Atlantis were functioning and the craft was ready for liftoff near Cape Canaveral, Fla.  The process of filling the external orange fuel tank of the shuttle, which is scheduled to launch at 11:41 a.m.
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Hoping for good weather  and better luck, NASA started fueling the space shuttle  Atlantis on Saturday for a last-ditch attempt to launch a  mission to resume construction of the International Space  Station.
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By MARCIA DUNN    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  -- NASA's redesigned space shuttle fuel tanks should no longer shed dangerous pieces of foam when launches resume next spring, officials said Thursday...
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A 27-ton fuel tank is making a five-day voyage across the Gulf of Mexico to NASA&#39;s Kennedy Space Center as the space agency prepares for its first space shuttle flight since the Columbia disaster in 2003.
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NASA has finished building a redesigned  space shuttle fuel tank that was reconfigured to eliminate the  debris problem that doomed the shuttle Columbia and its seven  astronauts, agency officials said on Tuesday.
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NASA began installing a new connector in Atlantis' fuel tank Friday in hopes of launching the space shuttle in early February, two months late.
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NASA has redesigned the space shuttle`s fuel tank, marking a big step in returning to space. The new tank has been designed to prevent chunks of insulating foam from breaking off during launch.