NASA retracts solar array on station
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In fits and starts, NASA began retracting via remote control a 115-foot solar array on the international space station Wednesday, likening the tricky task to folding a road map back up and stuffing it in the glove compartment.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - After almost 50 start-and-stop commands, dozens of engineering huddles and seven hours of working on the task, NASA decided on Wednesday to leave a 115-foot solar wing on the international space station halfway retracted.
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Two spacewalking astronauts finished folding up a stubborn, accordion-like solar array Monday, resolving the only complication in space shuttle Discovery's otherwise smooth mission to the international space station.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA unfurled two solar wings on the new 17 1/2-ton addition to the international space station early Thursday after overcoming a software problem that delayed the maneuver for hours.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In fits and starts, NASA began retracting via remote control a 115-foot solar panel on the international space station Wednesday, likening the tricky task to folding a road map back up and stuffing it in the glove compartment.
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NASA planned to undock the space shuttle Discovery from the International Space Station on Tuesday after an eventful mission that included a crucial rewiring and the retraction of a stubborn solar array.
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By RASHA MADKOUR  HOUSTON - Two spacewalking astronauts finished folding up a stubborn, accordion-like solar array Monday, resolving the only complication in space shuttle Discovery's otherwise smooth mission to the international space station.
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NASA engineers pondered how best to fix  a tear in space shuttle Atlantis&#39; heat shield while a new pair  of electricity-generating solar panels were unfurled on the  International Space Station on Tuesday.
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NASA officials approved a possible fourth space walk if Discovery astronauts are unable to unstick a stubborn solar array on the International Space Station.
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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station abandoned troubleshooting efforts on a jammed solar panel on Wednesday, leaving it half extended, and went forward with the next steps in their mission to rewire the outpost's electrical system.
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Nasa assesses damage to a newly unfurled solar panel at the International Space Station (ISS).
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The US space shuttle Atlantis prepared to undock from the International Space Station after astronauts fitted it with new solar panels designed to boost the station's power generating capacity.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A spacewalker manually shaking a stubborn solar array has managed to free two stuck grommets Saturday, but a third problem grommet is still stuck.
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By RASHA MADKOUR, Associated Press writer  HOUSTON  NASA unfurled the international space station's new solar wings for the first time Thursday in what looked like the stretching of a giant accordion in orbit.  "Big day for space station.
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HOUSTON -- A reluctant solar wing is finally furled atop the International Space Station (ISS) after two spacewalking astronauts poked and prodded it with tape-covered tools.
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Shuttle Atlantis undocked from the  International Space Station on Sunday to end a stay in which  the Atlantis crew installed a massive new solar power unit to  resume station construction after a nearly four-year hiatus.
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Shuttle Atlantis undocked from the   International Space Station on Sunday to end a stay in which   the Atlantis crew resumed station construction after a nearly   four-year hiatus by installing a massive new solar power unit.