Shuttle Suffers Low-Level Impact
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By Mike Schneider  Astronauts used the international space station's robotic arm Monday to examine a spot on the shuttle Discovery's left wing where sensors detected a "very low" impact, NASA officials said.
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Space shuttle Atlantis on Sunday began a slow trek from the launch pad back to a hangar so technicians can inspect damage caused by an hail storm and determine what kind of repairs should be made.
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Sept. 6, 2004 âThe damage report isn&#39;t even complete, much less an understanding of the impact Hurricane Frances will have on NASA&#39;s wallet and scheduled return of the shuttle fleet to flight.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.- Astronauts guided into place and bolted down a  2-ton addition to the international space station Tuesday, making the first  of three difficult spacewalks during space shuttle Discovery's stay.
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As expected, small pieces of foam debris and ice fell off the shuttleÂs external fuel tank during its launch, but they did not appear to strike the spacecraft.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Astronauts guided into place and bolted down a 2-ton addition to the international space station Tuesday, making the first of three difficult spacewalks during space shuttle Discovery's stay at the orbiting lab.  U.S.
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The U.S. space shuttle  Atlantis blasted off on a construction mission to the  International Space Station on Friday, ending a three-month  grounding to repair the ship&#39;s hail-battered fuel tank.
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By Mike Schneider  NASA on Tuesday postponed next month's launch of space shuttle Atlantis after a hailstorm left hundreds of small dents on the spacecraft's external fuel tank.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Sept. 16 -- With their hardest tasks behind them, space shuttle Atlantis's six astronauts got time to relax Saturday after almost a week of nonstop work adding a 17 1/2 -ton addition with winglike solar power panels to the international space station.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A patched-up Atlantis blasted off with seven astronauts Friday on the first space shuttle flight of 2007, putting NASA back on track after a run of bad luck and scandal that included a damaging hailstorm and a lurid love triangle.
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ASTRONAUTS on the space shuttle Atlantis will spend two extra days in orbit to fix the craft's thermal "blanket".   Experts feared the rip could result in damage to the shuttle during its re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere.
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An unidentified object orbiting below and at the same speed as Atlantis may have been shaken loose from the space shuttle, leading NASA officials to scramble to find out whether the vehicle remains safe to make the descent back to Earth.
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By Mike Schneider Associated Press  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Atlantis and its six astronauts glided to a safe landing in darkness early Thursday, ending a 12-day mission whose smooth success was briefly upstaged by the high drama caused by mysterious floating debris.
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The shuttle Discovery is ready to roar, but poor weather might keep it on the ground today.
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A piece of space debris  punched a small hole in one of space shuttle Atlantis' radiator  panels during its recent 12-day spaceflight, NASA said on  Thursday.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle Atlantis' astronauts wrapped up the third and final spacewalk of their flight Friday, completing installation of a 17 1/2-ton piece of the international space station and doing some other fix-it jobs on the outside.
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NASA mission managers discussing the planned March 15 launch of the space shuttle Atlantis have added one more topic to their standard preflight meeting: hail damage to the orbiter's external tank.