NASA Expects Shuttle Flights by the Spring
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Although still more work needs to be done, NASA officials said Monday that they were close to meeting all safety requirements for getting space shuttles flying again by the spring.
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NASA is aiming for a mid-May launch of the first shuttle flight since the Columbia tragedy almost two years ago. The launch date was the latest of several set by the space agency, and just as subject to change.
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The U.S. space shuttle  Atlantis was rolled out to its seaside launch pad on Thursday  in preparation for a planned liftoff in March on the first of  five missions NASA hopes to fly this year.
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NASA is close  to&nbsp;meeting all&nbsp;of the return-to-flight safety requirements set by  Columbia accident investigators and should be able to launch a shuttle by May  2005, shuttle program officials said today.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - Space shuttle Atlantis got the go-ahead from NASA on Thursday for a June 8 launch to resume construction of the International Space Station, after a three-month delay to repair hailstone damage.
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Nasa today postponed next month's launch of space shuttle Atlantis after a hailstorm left hundreds of small dents on the spacecraft's external fuel tank.   The launch, which had been set for March 15, was pushed back until at least late April to give Nasa time to make repairs.
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NASA has said it is aiming for a mid-May launch of the first shuttle flight since the Columbia tragedy in February 2003. The launch date was the latest of several set by the space agency, and just as subject to change.
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The space shuttle Atlantis's mission to the International Space Station, which has seen its launch repeatedly delayed due to technical problems, will likely take place in late January or early February, NASA said Thursday.
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NASA prepared Saturday for another attempt to launch the Space Shuttle Discovery from Florida, while predicting yet another delay.
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NASA confirmed Friday that space shuttle missions will resume as early as May, but agency officials said they will study how to cut future missions that would hasten the spacecraft&#39;s retirement.
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NASA managers had their  fingers crossed on Monday in hopes that this week's planned  launch of the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis will go ahead after a  week's delay due to a lightning strike and a storm.
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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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By Martin Merzer, The Miami Herald  Jun. 7--CAPE CANAVERAL -- NASA has declared the shuttle Atlantis ready to launch Friday on the year's first shuttle mission.  "After many months of hard work, Atlantis is ready to fly," NASA test director Steve Payne said Thursday morning.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA is finally ready to fly its first mission of the year, with space shuttle Atlantis and seven astronauts scheduled for liftoff at 7:38 p.m. EDT on Friday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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NASA said Thursday it had corrected flaws that caused the destruction of the space shuttle Columbia in February 2003 and that a modified shuttle would be ready to resume flights sometime next Spring.
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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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NASA on Thursday delayed the flight of space shuttle Atlantis until late January or, more likely, February to replace a suspect connector in the fuel tank. The connector is believed to be responsible for back-to-back launch postponements last month.