Italian Tower Ready for Space Station
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ROME - A watchtower built for the International Space Station (news - web sites) was turned over to the European Space Agency on Monday, the Italian aerospace company Alenia said.
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Two spacewalking astronauts unbolted a  huge solar power truss from the International Space Station on  Sunday to get it ready for a move to a new place on the space  outpost.
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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) are preparing for a potential spacewalk this month to replace a broken motor at the base of one of their orbital lab's expansive solar wings.
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One leaning tower is enough for Italy, according to local authorities in Venice who plan to reinforce the foundations of St. Mark's bell tower to stop it falling down.
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The space shuttle Discovery linked up with the International Space Station on Thursday on a mission to prepare the orbital outpost for new European and Japanese laboratories.
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A watchtower built for the International Space Station was turned over to the European Space Agency on Monday, the Italian aerospace company Alenia said.
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Shuttle Atlantis docked with the   International Space Station on Monday, 218 miles above Earth,   and prepared to hand over a 35,000-pound (15,880-kg) truss for   attachment to the half-finished outpost.
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Swedish Space Corp. workers on Thursday carried out final preparations on a rocket carrying weightlessness experiments that is due to be launched next week.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - Part of an elaborate Japanese science laboratory has arrived at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of its liftoff for the International Space Station, officials said on Tuesday.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 12  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- After traveling thousands of miles, a major component of the International Space Station is set to begin preparations for launch.
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By Traci Watson  Astronauts will step outside the International Space Station today to put the final touches on a new solar-panel system, needed to provide power for European and Japanese laboratories being added over the next 12 months.
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The crews of the US space shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station (ISS) have laid the groundwork for the first of three complicated spacewalks seen as critical to completing the half-finished orbiting laboratory.
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Europe finally got a place of its own in space when astronauts attached the European laboratory Columbus to the International Space Station on Monday.
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Astronauts hunkered down in an airlock ready for the second space walk of NASA's latest shuttle mission on Sunday, to install more hardware on an orbiting station hundreds of miles above Earth.
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Following lengthy repairs because of storm damage, the Atlantis orbiter is now ready to launch to the space station on Friday.
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By John Schwartz New York Times News Service  HOUSTON -- Two astronauts made spacewalking look easy on Tuesday as they hooked up the newest part of the International Space Station, a 35,000-pound truss with a solar array that will provide additional power to the station.
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