NASA says shuttle may re-launch in spring
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HOUSTON - NASA officials say they have completed the re-design of a tank used on the space shuttle that should prevent the falling debris problem that led to the destruction of the shuttle Columbia and its seven-member crew.
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The United States is to resume its space shuttle program next year after the Columbia shuttle tragedy in 2003. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, announced
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NASA said Thursday it had corrected flaws that caused the destruction of the space shuttle Columbia in February 2003 and that a modified shuttle would be ready to resume flights sometime next Spring.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. _ NASA hopes to try again Friday to launch shuttle Atlantis and its six astronauts, but will make a final decision Thursday, program managers said.
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NASA appears on track to return the space shuttle to flight in May or June 2005 as planned, says an influential oversight panel. The independent task force - set up to oversee NASA&#39;s efforts following the
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NASA (news - web sites) is aiming for a mid-May launch of the first shuttle flight since the Columbia tragedy almost two years ago.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - Space shuttle Atlantis got the go-ahead from NASA on Thursday for a June 8 launch to resume construction of the International Space Station, after a three-month delay to repair hailstone damage.
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HOUSTON - NASA's spaceflight leadership council decided Friday to delay the spring 2005 launch date for the first shuttle scheduled to return to space since last year's Columbia tragedy, citing hurricane damage and more work needed to meet a panel's recommendations.    The council canceled plans for a shuttle launch in March or April...
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The space shuttle Atlantis's mission to the International Space Station, which has seen its launch repeatedly delayed due to technical problems, will likely take place in late January or early February, NASA said Thursday.
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NASA may fly its next-generation space vehicle to the international space station through 2020, four years longer than the agency had originally planned to fly to the outpost, an official said Tuesday.
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NASA set February 7 as  the new date for a launch on a space shuttle of Europe's  Columbus laboratory to the International Space Station,  officials said on Thursday.
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The American space agency Nasa says the first space shuttle mission since the Columbia disaster of 2003 is to be launched next May or early June.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA skipped a first opportunity on Thursday to bring the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis back to Earth because of bad weather in Florida, but the space agency could make another attempt later in the day.
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Summary - (Nov 1, 2004) Grounded since the Columbia disaster, the space shuttles are tentatively expected to return to flight as early as May 2005, according to NASA officials.
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NASA planned to try  again on Saturday to launch the shuttle Discovery on a mission  to rewire the International Space Station, but the weather  forecast kept the nighttime launch in doubt.
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A group of experts convened by NASA said yesterday that the space shuttle would likely be ready to fly by the currently planned launch date in May or June, but it cautioned that efforts to
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The space shuttle will not fly before May 2005, according to NASA officials. This pushes the shuttle&#39;s return-to-flight schedule back by two months, and postpones a vital servicing mission to the International Space Station.