NASA Seeks Methods to Repair Shuttles in Flight
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NASA is hoping techniques that would enable a crew to repair damages to a space shuttle in flight will be ready for the shuttle&#39;s planned May 2005 return to space, officials with the agency said on Monday.
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NASA managers said that they would extend the mission of the space shuttle Atlantis for a spacewalk to repair a problem that could cause damage during re-entry.
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NASA officials today unveiled a series of changes meant to prevent falling debris like the large foam chunk that knocked a hole in the wing of the space shuttle Columbia, ultimately dooming
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NASA is wrestling with a potentially dangerous problem in a spacecraft that has not even been built yet.
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NASA engineers pondered how best to fix a tear in space shuttle Atlantis' heat shield while a new pair of electricity-generating solar panels were unfurled on the International Space Station on Tuesday.
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The space shuttle may begin flying before NASA has a reliable plan to fix damage similar to that which doomed the Columbia shuttle in February 2003, the manager of the shuttle program said Monday.
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NASA officials Thursday said the situation appeared to be improving on the International Space Station as crews worked to repair onboard computer systems.
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NASA engineers said yesterday that plans to send the space shuttle aloft next May appear to be proceeding smoothly, but designers acknowledged &quot;setbacks&quot; in devising onboard techniques to
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NASA asked its orbiting astronauts Monday to take a closer look at the gears that control the international space station's solar wings to try to find out what's grinding inside and causing steel chips to clog the system.
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Nasa astronauts will attempt to fix a thermal blanket that peeled back during the launch of space shuttle Atlantis.
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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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Twenty months after the Columbia tragedy, NASA is still struggling to overcome serious engineering hurdles to resume flying its space shuttles in March, a task that has become even tougher
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NASA made plans Thursday to possibly extend the space shuttle's stay at the International Space Station because of malfunctioning computers.
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Atlantis astronauts may use a sewing kit normally reserved for spacesuits to repair a peeled-back thermal blanket near the spacecraft's tail, NASA managers said Tuesday. The shuttle astronauts' 11-day mission was extended Monday by two days to allow time to fix the thermal blanket, which peeled during launch last week.
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NASA will try to fix the problem in time for a launching at 11:15 a.m. Saturday, agency officials said.
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Astronauts at the International Space Station prepared for a third space walk Friday to repair torn space shuttle insulation, amid problems with computers controling the ISS&#39;s oxygen supply and orbital position.
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NASA hopes to test a thermal tile patch on the next space shuttle mission that could have been used to fix the gouge that was carved into the bottom of Endeavour during last month's launch.