NASA extends shuttle mission
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA added a day to the shuttle Discovery's visit to the International Space Station to allow time for spacewalkers to study a troubled but critical part of the outpost's power system, the agency said on Monday.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA on Thursday will attempt to launch its third space shuttle mission in six months, a healthy pace the agency needs to maintain to finish work on the International Space Station before the shuttles stop flying in four years.
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NASA kept its fingers crossed as it worked out a technical glitch with a fuel cell that has stranded the shuttle Atlantis for at least 48 hours, until the next launch attempt Friday.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - The shuttle Discovery astronauts added a new room to the International Space Station on Friday, extending the orbital outpost so Europe and Japanese laboratories can be linked in as well.
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One down, three to go Almost as soon as the crew of the space shuttle Atlantis completed their first spacewalk, NASA announced that the mission to the International Space Station will be extended by two days to make time for a fourth excursion into hard vacuum.â¦
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The US space agency, NASA, says work continues on safety improvements on the space shuttle design in anticipation of the shuttle&#39;s return to flight in 2005.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Sept. 16 -- With their hardest tasks behind them, space shuttle Atlantis's six astronauts got time to relax Saturday after almost a week of nonstop work adding a 17 1/2 -ton addition with winglike solar power panels to the international space station.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA was set on Tuesday   to make a third attempt to launch space shuttle Discovery on a   mission vital to the program's future after easing concerns   over a small crack in the ship's fuel tank.
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The International Space Station grew a bit longer this week as astronauts attached the Starboard 3 and 4 truss segment during a six-hour spacewalk.
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The third and final space shuttle flight of the year, a mission to continue construction of the International Space Station, is to blast off on Dec. 7, NASA managers announced.
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By Martin Merzer, The Miami Herald  Dec. 9--CAPE CANAVERAL -- Overcoming a technical delay but still concerned about the weather, NASA this afternoon fueled shuttle Discovery for tonight's second attempt to launch the spaceship and its seven astronauts.
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NASA has cleared the shuttle Atlantis for liftoff this week on a long-delayed mission to deliver a European science lab to the international space station.
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Wrapping up a 13-day mission, NASA planned to land the shuttle at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida or Edwards Air Force Base in California.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA postponed the   launch of the space shuttle Atlantis on Friday after a fuel   sensor failed, only the latest delay of its mission to restart   construction of the International Space Station.
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The US space agency (Nasa) has pushed back the return to flight of the space shuttles until May at the earliest. The Discovery orbiter was due to launch in March or April on a mission to the International
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CAPE CANAVERAL-- NASA aims to launch its first post-Columbia shuttle mission during a shortened nine-day window March, and failure to do so likely would delay a planned return to flight until at least May.
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NASA said on Tuesday it would extend the space shuttle Discovery's mission by one day to allow for a closer inspection of a flawed rotary joint that turns the solar arrays aboard the International Space Station.