More difficult stages in space station constuction lie ahead
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The installation of new solar panels on the International Space Station by the shuttle Atlantis crew marks just one stage in the difficult task of completing the orbital laboratory by 2010.
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The crew of the International Space Station is conducting the fourth and final spacewalk of its six-month mission Friday to install and replace equipment.
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The two astronauts aboard the International Space Station moved the Soyuz spacecraft that brought them to the orbiting outpost to prepare for a pair of spacewalks to be conducted next year.
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Russian cosmonauts aboard the  International Space Station were trying on Saturday to  kick-start components of a critical computer system that were  still down, but most parts were up and running, raising hopes  they would not crash again.
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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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Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station were trying on Saturday to kick-start components of a critical computer system that were still down, but most parts were up and running, raising hopes they would not crash again.
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Despite weather concerns and a small chunk of ice that threatened to delay the beginning of the shuttle Discoveryâs mission, everything seemed to fall into place.
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By John Schwartz New York Times News Service  HOUSTON -- Two astronauts made spacewalking look easy on Tuesday as they hooked up the newest part of the International Space Station, a 35,000-pound truss with a solar array that will provide additional power to the station.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Astronauts guided into place and bolted down a 2-ton addition to the international space station Tuesday, making the first of three difficult spacewalks during space shuttle Discovery's stay at the orbiting lab.  U.S.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - With the successful Wednesday landing of NASA's shuttle Atlantis, the stage is set for a busy year of construction at the International Space Station (ISS).
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By Traci Watson  NASA is scrambling to develop alternate ways to fold up a balky solar panel that, in its current position, would halt construction of the International Space Station.
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By Traci Watson  Two astronauts breezed through a challenging spacewalk Tuesday to build the International Space Station, getting so far ahead of schedule that Mission Control asked them to take on tasks that were supposed to be done by a second set of spacewalkers today.
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In what should have been the &quot;home stretch&quot; of their six-month orbital expedition, the crew of the international space station is struggling with new problems in their critical oxygen production system.
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Astronauts and engineers spent Tuesday troubleshooting problems in space and on the ground.
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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
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Astronauts hunkered down in an airlock ready for the second spacewalk of NASA's latest shuttle mission on Sunday, to install more hardware on an orbiting station hundreds of miles above Earth.
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Two spacewalking astronauts added a new piece to the metal backbone of the International Space Station on Tuesday, clearing the way for a critical power rewiring later this week.