NASA Sets Plan for Shuttle Sensor Fix
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NASA engineers will remove parts of a suspect fuel tank connector for analysis and repair, work that will likely further delay the planned January launch of the shuttle Atlantis, the agency's shuttle chief said Thursday.
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Upon arriving, crews prepared to examine the outer side of the shuttleÂs left wing, where sensors detected a Âvery lowÂ impact, a NASA official said.
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NASA officials said Thursday that they had made significant progress in making shuttles safer and changing the way they do business.
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By SETH BORENSTEIN HOUSTON - The orbiting Discovery crew, en route Sunday to rewire the international space station, first had to make sure the shuttle's heat shield wasn't damaged during liftoff.
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Nasa says it is unsure when the Atlantis orbiter will lift off as it grapples with a sensor problem on the shuttle.
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The space shuttle may begin flying before NASA has a reliable plan to fix damage similar to that which doomed the Columbia shuttle in February 2003, the manager of the shuttle program said Monday.
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High-tech NASA may repair a torn heat-resistant blanket on the space shuttle Atlantis in a low-tech way -- by sending an astronaut out to stitch it together, the U.S. space agency said on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON: An expert panel on Wednesday recommended sending a manned shuttle mission to repair the aging Hubble Space Telescope, instead of the robotic mission NASA had envisioned.
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The CAIB report urged NASA to develop a way for astronauts during flight to inspect the orbiter and make emergency repairs to its insulation tiles and reinforced carbon-carbon panels.
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HOUSTON - NASA officials say they have completed the re-design of a tank used on the space shuttle that should prevent the falling debris problem that led to the destruction of the shuttle Columbia and its seven-member crew.
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NASA on Thursday will take a significant step toward getting the space shuttle flying again when it rolls out the first new fuel tank that is designed to eliminate the problems that led to the 2003 breakup of shuttle Columbia.
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Looking to accomplish the most work in the shortest period of time, NASA managers have decided to test two techniques to repair heat shields during one spacewalk when the space shuttle returns to flight, agency officials said on Friday.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA postponed the   launch of the space shuttle Atlantis from Florida on Friday due   to a problem with a sensor in the spacecraft's external fuel   tank, a NASA official said.
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SPACE.com / CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA shuttle managers are deciding  whether simple camera views, a third heat shield survey or possibly even a  spacewalk may be required to address a mystery object near the space shuttle  Atlantis that has already delayed the spacecraft's landing.    'We have ruled out nothing and we'll  take the time that it needs to take,' NASA's shuttle program manager Wayne Hale told reporters  today. 'We'll come back and maybe have a little better gelled plan later this  afternoon. ...
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NASA will try to fix the problem in time for a launching at 11:15 a.m. Saturday, agency officials said.
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SPACE.com / CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA put off Friday's launch scrub decision for the space shuttle Atlantis as long as possible to determine whether a fuel sensor issue warranted keeping the orbiter Earthbound for one more day, top shuttle officials said today.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  -- NASA resolved lingering concerns about lines connecting the external fuel tank to Atlantis on Wednesday and moved ahead with preparations for the first space shuttle launch of the year.