U.S. Space Shuttle Crew Eager to Return to Flight
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Astronauts assigned to NASA's first space shuttle mission since the 2003 Columbia disaster said on Friday they are confident mistakes and technical problems that led to that accident are in the past.
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Weather conditions were looking good for the Atlantis space shuttle and its seven crew to return to Earth on Wednesday, NASA officials said Tuesday.
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By RASHA MADKOUR  HOUSTON - In a routine familiar to travelers on Earth, shuttle astronauts were spending Tuesday packing their things, indulging in their surroundings one last day and making sure their vehicle is ready for the ride home.
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The United States' grounded Space Shuttle fleet may resume flights to the International Space Station next May or June, a senior ISS official said Tuesday.
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NASA is hoping techniques that would enable a crew to repair damages to a space shuttle in flight will be ready for the shuttle's planned May 2005 return to space, officials with the agency said on Monday.
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Spacewalking astronauts aim to repair a damaged thermal blanket on the space shuttle Atlantis on Friday as U.S. and Russian controllers struggle with a worrying computer failure on the International Space Station.
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A Russian-US crew returned to Earth from the international space station Sunday in a pinpoint landing on the Kazakhstan steppe, and NASA&#39;s chief said the United States
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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 on Friday evening from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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By RASHA MADKOUR  HOUSTON - Mission Control has given Atlantis astronauts the go-ahead to start their descent back to Earth after a fruitful mission at the international space station. "You are go for the de-orbit burn," Tony Antonelli in Houston radioed up to the crew at 4:53 a.m.
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By SETH BORENSTEIN  HOUSTON - Space became a tad more crowded Monday morning, but the crew of the space shuttle Atlantis prepared to ease that congestion and go home after one last inspection of its critical heat shield.
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A swarm of NASA flight controllers, astronauts and engineers have reached one step closer to returning to space agency's shuttle program to launch status, performing the first of many full-scale simulations for its first return-to-flight mission.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The seven-astronaut crew of NASA&#39;s shuttle Atlantis is hoping to beat the weather to make a Florida landing today after a successful construction flight to the International Space Station (ISS).
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The crew of the shuttle's next flight get a taste for life on board as they prepare for launch just weeks away.
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The crew of the US shuttle Atlantis inspected the craft for damage sustained during takeoff as they headed out into space, preparing to dock with the International Space Station on Sunday.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Â The seven astronauts set to launch aboard NASA's shuttle Discovery next week arrived at the agency's spaceport Friday eager to fly and confident their spacecraft is safe to rocket into orbit.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - After two frustrating weeks of delays, space shuttle Atlantis and its six astronauts blasted off Saturday on a mission to resume construction of the international space station for the first time since the Columbia disaster 3 1/2 years ago.
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MOSCOW - Echoing what NASA (news - web sites) officials said a day earlier, a Russian space official on Friday said the two-man crew on the international space station could be forced to return to Earth if a planned resupply flight cannot reach them with