NASA tries to free station's jammed solar panel
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NASA ground controllers tried to free a jammed solar panel on the International Space Station on Friday, while astronauts prepared for a final spacewalk to rewire the outpost's power grid.
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NASA scientists were testing systems affected by a weekend power failure aboard the International Space Station. National Aeronautics and Space Administration mission controllers in Houston said none of the station's three crew members was in any danger during the blackout.
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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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Spacewalking astronauts capped a complex rewiring of the International Space Station's power grid on Saturday by easing a jammed solar wing panel, the only hiccup in NASA's most difficult construction mission to date.
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By Rasha Madkour Associated Press  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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By MIKE SCHNEIDER CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - After a handful of unsuccessful attempts Friday to coax a solar array to fold properly, NASA officials now plan to send two spacewalkers to examine it close up.
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Despite all the vibrations of a German astronaut excercising, a solar array on the International Space Station remained stuck and could require a fourth spacewalk to fold it away, NASA has said.
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HOUSTON - Two spacewalking astronauts helped pry a massive solar power tower from its perch atop the International Space Station (ISS) Sunday and discovered odd metal shavings in a large joint that turns the orbital lab's starboard solar arrays.
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NASA asked its orbiting astronauts Monday to take a closer look at the gears that control the international space station's solar wings to try to find out what's grinding inside and causing steel chips to clog the system.
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NASA hopes to duplicate the success it had with rewiring the international space station earlier this week so it can continue tackling a problem that has vexed it for days.
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Astronauts aboard the International  Space Station readied for a fourth spacewalk on Monday to  unstick a jammed solar array in an extra excursion that  extended the space shuttle Discovery's mission at the orbiting  outpost by a day.
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Astronauts spent Sunday preparing for an extra spacewalk to free a stuck solar array on the International Space Station and unloading supplies brought up by the shuttle Discovery.
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By RASHA MADKOUR  HOUSTON - NASA unfurled the international space station's new solar wings for the first time Thursday in what looked like a giant accordion being stretched out in orbit. "Big day for space station.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - Space shuttle astronauts left their ship for a fourth spacewalk on Monday in a last-ditch effort to free a jammed solar wing panel on the International Space Station and complete every job NASA wanted for its final flight of the year.
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Spacewalking astronauts  coaxed a balky solar wing panel on the International Space  Station into its storage box on Monday, capping a tedious but  ultimately successful mission by the shuttle Discovery crew.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Dec. 13 -- 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 refolding a road map and stuffing it into  a glove compartment.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - Two spacewalking astronauts on Sunday found metal shavings inside a huge gear that spins a pair of the International Space Station's solar wing panels, raising concerns about power supplies and the long-term health of the orbital outpost.