NASA Orders Repair to Shuttle, Extending Mission
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The crew will now spend 13 days in space.  HOUSTON  -- Astronauts will try to fix a thermal blanket that peeled back during Atlantis' launch, extending the space shuttle's mission to 13 days from 11, NASA managers said Monday.
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A SEWING kit is set to be used to repair a multi-million pound space Shuttle during the first mission of the year to the international space station, Nasa said today.
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NASA reported major progress on  glitches in a critical computer system on the International  Space Station on Friday as astronauts repaired insulation  damage to the space shuttle Atlantis during a spacewalk.
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NASA told the space shuttle Atlantis to stay in orbit while engineers try to identify an object seen floating nearby the spacecraft.
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By SETH BORENSTEIN HOUSTON - NASA ordered Atlantis' six astronauts to perform a more extensive inspection of the space shuttle using a 50-foot-boom early Wednesday to see if its heat shield was damaged by a mysterious object that apparently floated off the spacecraft.
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Astronauts on Friday fixed a tear in the shuttle Atlantis&#39;s heat shield and repaired two main computers at the International Space Station after an unprecedented systems breakdown that lasted 48 hours, a NASA spokeswoman said.
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The hail-damaged fuel  tank on space shuttle Atlantis likely will be repaired at the  Florida launch site, minimizing the delay for NASA's first  mission of the year, officials said on Monday.
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By Juan A. Lozano, Associated Press  HOUSTON -- The failure of Russian computers that control the international space station's positioning have NASA managers considering another extension of space shuttle Atlantis' visit to the orbiting outpost, officials said Wednesday.
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Spacewalking astronauts aim to repair a  damaged thermal blanket on the space shuttle Atlantis on Friday  as U.S. and Russian controllers struggle with a worrying  computer failure on the International Space Station.
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NASA will cross off one more goal from its shuttle return-to-flight checklist this week when it ships an improved space shuttle external fuel tank to the Kennedy Space Center, officials said Tuesday.
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NASA has funded another extension of their mission -- an additional six months, if they last. Word from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory is that NASA has regained reliable contact with the rovers Spirit and Opportunity
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Nasa detects a problem with a sensor on the external tank of the space shuttle Atlantis hours before take-off.
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By Traci Watson Astronauts on space shuttle Atlantis may need to make an emergency repair in orbit to a damaged section of their spacecraft's heat shield, shuttle official John Shannon said Sunday.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA has decided to go   ahead with Tuesday's launch of space shuttle Discovery on a   mission critical to the spacecraft's future despite finding a   small crack in the foam insulation on the ship's fuel tank, a   NASA official said.
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WASHINGTON Dec 28, 2004 - In a major step toward resuming launches of the space shuttle, NASA officials said Tuesday they have completed improvements that will prevent the falling debris problem that destroyed space shuttle Columbia and killed seven
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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.
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In a major step toward resuming launches of the space shuttle, NASA officials said Tuesday they have completed improvements that will prevent the falling debris problem that destroyed space shuttle Columbia and killed seven astronauts.