Shuttle set to resume space station construction
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA is set to launch another component of the International Space Station into orbit on Friday, three months behind schedule but in compliance with more rigorous safety standards imposed after the space shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA decided on   Thursday to try to launch space shuttle Atlantis next Wednesday   to resume construction of the International Space Station,   after a delay caused by a lighting strike and threat of bad   weather.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA declared that it's back in the space-station assembly business Thursday after shuttle Atlantis and its six astronauts safely returned from a 12-day mission to install a big new piece of the orbiting outpost. "It was a great team effort.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - After two frustrating weeks of delays, space shuttle Atlantis and its six astronauts blasted off Saturday on a mission to resume construction of the international space station for the first time since the Columbia disaster 3 1/2 years ago.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER   Associated Press writer  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA and its Russian counterpart worked on two minor problems Monday before starting the countdown clock for Thursday night's launch of space shuttle Discovery on a mission to rewire the international space station.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA will try again on Friday to bring the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis and seven astronauts home after bad weather prevented its planned landing in Florida on Thursday.
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The United States' grounded Space Shuttle fleet may resume flights to the International Space Station next May or June, a senior ISS official said Tuesday.
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Shuttle Atlantis astronauts on Sunday  guided a sensor-laden robot arm along the outside of their  spacecraft to check for damage after launching on a flight to  restart construction of the International Space Station.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA hopes to take a   second shot at launching the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis next   week after a lightning strike and threatening weather derailed   plans for an August mission to resume construction of the   International Space Station.
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By Mark Carreau, Houston Chronicle  Jun. 4--NASA is preparing to ramp up the pace of its shuttle missions as Atlantis is poised to blast off this week in a bid to finish the assembly of the international space station by a 2010 deadline.
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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's planned May 2005 return to space, officials with the agency said on Monday.
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The twice-delayed flight of the space shuttle Atlantis, carrying a major addition to the International Space Station, is set for liftoff Thursday.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA plans to launch its next shuttle mission to the International Space Station on August 7, two days earlier than the previous target date, to avoid a scheduling crunch at Florida's spaceport, the space agency said on Thursday.
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By John Johnson Jr. Los Angeles Times  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The shuttle Atlantis, America's long- haul space truck, returned to duty Saturday, blasting into orbit with a 17-ton load of construction material for the International Space Station.
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The U.S. space shuttle  Atlantis docked at the International Space Station on Sunday to  resume construction of the outpost and deliver a new crew  member.
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By JUAN A. LOZANO HOUSTON - A revived set of crucial computers aboard the international space station appeared to pass one more test Monday, making it likely that space shuttle Atlantis will return home later this week.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Sept. 9 -- The shuttle Atlantis rocketed into orbit Saturday on a long-awaited mission to resume assembly of the space station three-and-a-half years after the 2003 Columbia disaster.