AROUND THE WORLD..: Astronauts' Repair Delay
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ASTRONAUTS on the space shuttle Atlantis will spend two extra days in orbit to fix the craft's thermal "blanket".   Experts feared the rip could result in damage to the shuttle during its re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere.
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A sick German astronaut has delayed by 24 hours a spacewalk that had been set for Sunday to attach the European-made Columbus laboratory to the orbiting International Space Station, a NASA spokesman said.
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A software glitch has delayed the deployment of the new solar arrays recently installed by Atlantis astronauts on the orbiting International Space Station (ISS).
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NASA&#39;s attempt to break world speed records with its X-43A scramjet test plane was postponed on Monday due to concerns over faulty instrumentation.
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The crew will now spend 13 days in space.  HOUSTON  -- Astronauts will try to fix a thermal blanket that peeled back during Atlantis' launch, extending the space shuttle's mission to 13 days from 11, NASA managers said Monday.
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Last week's news that the orbiting Hubble  observatory's most productive and far-seeing camera may be irreparably damaged sent a chill through the world of astronomy. Even if astronauts return to the Hubble next year as planned to repair and replace several instruments, fixing the electrical malfunction in the Advanced Camera for Surveys is not expected to be on the schedule....
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MOSCOW -- Russian news agencies report that the launch of the next International Space Station crew may be delayed by up to 10 days.
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Russia may have to delay October&#39;s planned launch of the next International Space Station crew by up to 10 days to fix a problem on the spacecraft that is to carry them into orbit, Russian news agencies reported.
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There's nothing routine about working in space, as astronaut Mike Fincke found out recently when he did some soldering onboard the International Space Station.    Science@NASA -- Richard Grugel, a materials scientist at the Marshall Space Flight Center, watched his video monitor in disbelief...
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By Rasha Madkour  HOUSTON  --  Space shuttle Atlantis astronauts have been so productive that they have only one more item to complete from their original spacewalk to-do list.  A circuit breaker pushed today's spacewalk back by about 45 minutes; it's now due to start at 6 a.m. EDT.
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SPACE.com / HOUSTON - Despite a late start caused by airlock glitches, two Atlantis shuttle astronauts pushed through their mission's final spacewalk to help deploy a vital new solar array radiator among other maintenance outside the International Space Station (ISS).
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Urgent: Technical glitch forces delay of space shuttle Atlantis    WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) -- A technical glitch has forced a delay of the launch of space shuttle Atlantis originally scheduled for Wednesday, and a launch attempt would be made on Thursday instead, NASA announced.
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By Martin Merzer, The Miami Herald  Sep. 19--An unexplained object that apparently separated from shuttle Atlantis forced NASA to delay the crew's return to Earth by at least a day, mission managers said today.   The object could be as benign as a piece of ice or a small tool.
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2nd LD Writethru: International space station's faulty computers all back online    WASHINGTON, June 16 (Xinhua) -- The six faulty computers at the International Space Station's (ISS) Russian segment has been all restored on Saturday, according to a top NASA official.
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Space Station computers partly restored    WASHINGTON, June 14 (Xinhua) -- The International Space Station partly restored from the computers breakdown on Thursday, according to NASA mission control center.
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Astronauts at the International Space Station prepared for a third space walk Friday to repair torn space shuttle insulation, amid problems with computers controling the ISS&#39;s oxygen supply and orbital position.
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Cape Canaveral - Nearly two years after Columbia shattered in the sky, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration still has no way of repairing the kind of holes that could doom other shuttles.