Fueling starts for space shuttle
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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 prepared to launch space shuttle Discovery on a complex International Space Station mission, even as lingering clouds threatened to delay liftoff by at least 24 hours.
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NASA's redesigned fuel tank, a massive vessel that supplies propellant for the launch of the space shuttle, began its five-day trip across the Gulf of Mexico to the launch site on Florida's east coast.
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WASHINGTON NASA&#39;s ready to roll out an improved rocket fuel tank designed to prevent problems that helped destroy the space shuttle Columbia.
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By Associated Press  HOUSTON -- A new set of solar panels gleamed in the sunlight Tuesday on the international space station as the freshly installed array started opening up.
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NASA engineers have attached the shuttle Atlantis to its immense external fuel tank and twin rocket boosters, bringing the spacecraft one step closer to a March launch towards the International Space Station (ISS).
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Discovery and a crew of seven rocketed into orbit Tuesday in pursuit of the international space station, where a formidable construction job awaits them.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - For a few brief moments, night turned to day at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) as the&nbsp;shuttle Discovery climbed into space atop twin columns of fire and smoke in the agency's first evening launch in four years.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - Technicians at the   Kennedy Space Center in Florida started filling space shuttle   Atlantis' fuel tank for a launch attempt on Friday after nearly   two weeks of delays due to weather problems and technical   glitches, officials said.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA engineers were troubleshooting a possible problem Wednesday with lines connecting the external fuel tank to space shuttle Atlantis, the only remaining concern about the first shuttle flight of the year.
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The countdown for the December 7 launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery's mission to the International Space Station has begun as scheduled.
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NASA decided to go ahead with the planned launch of the shuttle Atlantis on Friday despite technical problems with a fuel cell.
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HOUSTON - A pair of shuttle Atlantis' astronauts will venture outside the international space station this morning to begin activating a $372 million set of power-producing solar arrays.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle Discovery raced toward a rendezvous with the international space station Monday, ready to deliver a new crew member and a 2-ton addition to the space lab.
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The U.S. shuttle Atlantis was in orbit Saturday, heading for the International Space Station.
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A 27-ton fuel tank is making a five-day voyage across the Gulf of Mexico to NASA's Kennedy Space Center as the space agency prepares for its first shuttle flight since the Columbia disaster in 2003.
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The U.S. space shuttle  Endeavour was rolled out of a hangar on Monday and taken to an  assembly building at the Kennedy Space Center to be fitted with  a fuel tank and booster rockets for a scheduled August 7  launch.