Big shuttle repairs not possible
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Space shuttle astronauts will fly next year without the ability to repair in orbit the type of damage that destroyed the Columbia vehicle in February 2003.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA postponed the   launch of the space shuttle Atlantis on Wednesday due to a   technical problem with the spacecraft's onboard power supply, a   NASA official said.
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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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By JUAN LOZANO HOUSTON - Astronauts will try to fix a thermal blanket that peeled back during Atlantis' launch, extending the space shuttle's mission from 11 to 13 days, NASA managers said Monday.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA postponed the   launch of the space shuttle Atlantis on Wednesday because of a   problem with a power system aboard the ship, officials with the   U.S. space agency said.
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Twenty months after the Columbia tragedy, NASA is still struggling to overcome serious engineering hurdles  to resume flying its space shuttles in  March, a task that has become even tougher because of hurricane-caused work stoppages and damage to critical facilities.
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NASA is working feverishly to return the space shuttle to flight in May 2005, but it may fly without the capability to fix cracks or holes of the type that doomed Columbia in 2003, officials said on Monday.
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Nearly two years after Columbia shattered in the sky, NASA still has no way of repairing the kind of holes that could doom another shuttle, space agency officials acknowledged
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Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour -- were not in the NASA Vehicle Assembly Building during the onslaught of Hurricane Frances. The VAB lost about 40,000
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HOUSTON, June 11 -- Astronauts will try to fix a thermal blanket that peeled back during the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis, extending the spacecraft's mission from 11 to 13 days, NASA managers said Monday.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - Damage sustained by the space shuttle Atlantis in a ferocious hail storm means NASA will not be able to launch the next shuttle mission in March as planned, the U.S. space agency said on Tuesday.
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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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Hurricanes Charley, Frances and Ivan have cost NASA a least a week&#39;s worth of work and upset its tight schedule for resuming shuttle flights, throwing into doubt the
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA managers delayed   filling the space shuttle Atlantis' fuel tank early on   Wednesday to give technicians time to trouble-shoot a problem   with one of the ship's three onboard fuel cells, a spokeswoman   with the U.S. space agency said.
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The battering that the hurricanes of the last month has inflicted on NASA centers could strain an already tight schedule for resuming shuttle flights, but it is too early to tell how badly, experts said Thursday.
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By Mike Schneider Associated Press  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- For the fourth time in two weeks, NASA nixed the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis, this time for a faulty fuel tank sensor -- the same glitch that has thwarted two other missions.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press writer  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  NASA postponed the return of Atlantis for at least a day and examined the shuttle for damage that could prevent it from making the journey home after a mysterious object apparently fell off the ship in orbit Tuesday.