Space center faces workers' strike
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As the countdown toward a launch of Atlantis on the first space shuttle flight of the year was set to begin, another clock ticked away Monday toward a possible strike by several hundred workers at Kennedy Space Center.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - Two astronauts on the International Space Station will make a spacewalk next week to find out if a micrometeoroid strike damaged a critical part of the outpost's power system, officials said on Thursday.
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NASA is pressing ahead with plans to use part of the International Space Station (ISS) as a national laboratory, a move that would reserve about half of the outpost&#39;s U.S. science facilities for outside use by 2011.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - Spacewalking astronauts and technicians on the ground conducted a day of trouble-shooting that shed light on a spate of problems that have stalled construction of the International Space Station, NASA managers said Tuesday.
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Russian and NASA engineers worked into the evening yesterday to figure out why two computer systems essential to the operation of the international space station crashed, and the agency began making contingency plans that include potentially abandoning the $100 billion facility if they should fail.
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NASA is wrestling with a potentially dangerous problem in a spacecraft that has not even been built yet.
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NASA is preparing to launch a new space telescope named GLAST to study the most violent explosions in the history of our Universe.
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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station prepared for a crucial spacewalk on Thursday to reroute the outpost's power system as NASA engineers worked on plans for a possible fourth spacewalk to fix a stuck solar panel.
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Clocks at the Kennedy  Space Center in Florida began ticking down on Saturday toward  Tuesday's planned launch of the space shuttle Discovery on a  construction mission to the International Space Station.
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A new space observatory is preparing for a mid-November spaceflight despite setbacks caused by hurricanes that washed across its Florida launch pad.
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Food is so scarce aboard the International Space Station that the two-member crew might have to leave as early as New Year&#39;s Day if something goes wrong with a robotic
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This human interest story describes a night in the life of scientists and engineers working 'round the clock to test NASA's next great space telescope.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA is set to launch another component of the International Space Station into orbit on Friday, three months behind schedule but in compliance with more rigorous safety standards imposed after the space shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003.
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Two crewmen aboard the  International Space Station on Thursday prepared for a  spacewalk during which more than 1,600 pounds (726 kg) of  obsolete gear will be tossed overboard and left to burn up in  Earth&#39;s atmosphere.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  --  Before the space shut
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After a successful first spacewalk, the crew aboard the space shuttle was set to spend much of Wednesday preparing to rewire the international space station, one of their most important tasks.
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Astronauts working on the International   Space Station had troubles on Wednesday familiar to any   backyard mechanic on Earth -- a lost bolt and a broken tool.