Astronauts work on Columbus lab
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With two of their three spacewalks completed, the astronauts aboard the linked shuttle-station complex focused Thursday on getting the new Columbus lab up and running.
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Two spacewalking astronauts floated out of a hatch on the international space station on Friday to help install a new live-in compartment on the orbiting lab
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By Traci Watson  Astronauts will step outside the International Space Station today to put the final touches on a new solar-panel system, needed to provide power for European and Japanese laboratories being added over the next 12 months.
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Astronauts examined malfunctioning joints on the International Space Station as engineers tested fuel tank sensors aboard the shuttle Atlantis sitting on its launch pad.
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By RASHA MADKOUR  HOUSTON - The orbiting Discovery crew started the meticulous inspection of the shuttle's heat shield on Sunday, looking for any possible damage from liftoff.
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The tin-can-shaped Columbus science laboratory, is the newest addition to the International Space Station and Europeâs largest contribution.
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Almost two weeks of troubleshooting is paying off for the two Expedition 9 crewmembers. Today they restarted the International Space Station&#39;s primary oxygen generating unit.
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Two shuttle Atlantis astronauts wrapped up a spacewalk on Friday to install a solar observatory and a science experiment on Europe's space lab.
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Two spacewalking astronauts hung science experiments on the outside of the space station's new lab Friday and packed up a broken gyroscope for next week's shuttle ride home.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press  Two astronauts install the two-ton addition to the international space station during the first of three spacewalks.
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The two-man crew of the international space station went outside again for more repair work. Gennady Padalka and Mike Fincke spent five and a-half hours plugging in new antennas
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Two astronauts have began the second of three spacewalks of the shuttle Atlantis' mission, to continue work on the orbiting International Space Station (ISS).
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Two astronauts complete a spacewalk to fix a new laboratory on the International Space Station.
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With the Columbus lab now secured to the international space station, the 10 orbiting astronauts rolled up their sleeves on Tuesday for their next big job: getting the lab running.
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MELBOURNE, Fla.  - The two-man crew aboard the  International Space Station successfully completed a 5 1/2-hour  spacewalk Wednesday to set up a robotics experiment and help  engineers fix a problem with the station's oxygen generator.
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Two shuttle Atlantis astronauts resumed  work outside the International Space Station on Friday to  attach experiments to the hull of Europe's newly delivered  research outpost.
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The next mission of the space shuttle Discovery set for liftoff Tuesday is critical to building the International Space Station, ferrying in the Harmony module key to installing the European lab Columbus and Japan's Kibo lab.