Nasa to relaunch shuttles two years after &#39;Columbia&#39;
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Nasa has announced plans to launch the first manned space mission since the 2003 Columbia disaster. The next shuttle flight is to take place in May 2005 following a series of delays because of damage caused by hurricanes.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA is set to launch another component of the International Space Station into orbit on Friday, three months behind schedule but in compliance with more rigorous safety standards imposed after the space shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA hopes to take a   second shot at launching the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis next   week after a lightning strike and threatening weather derailed   plans for an August mission to resume construction of the   International Space Station.
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HOUSTON Oct. 2, 2004 - The first shuttle flight since the Columbia tragedy has been pushed back by NASA because hurricane damage and implementation of new safety measures made a spring 2005 launch &quot;no longer achievable.
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NASA tomorrow will take a significant step toward getting the space shuttle flying again when it rolls out the first new fuel tank designed to eliminate problems that led to the 2003 breakup of shuttle Columbia.
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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 officials said on Friday that the space shuttle Discovery could take off for the International Space Station in May or June in the first of two test flights aimed at resuming normal shuttle operations.
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The American space agency Nasa says the first space shuttle mission since the Columbia disaster of 2003 is to be launched next May or early June.
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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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NASA said Thursday that on June 8 it would attempt to launch the US shuttle Atlantis to the orbiting International Space Station, a mission that has been delayed since March due to fuel tank damage.
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Almost two years after seven astronauts died when Columbia broke up over Texas, NASA is taking a major step toward returning its space shuttles to flight.
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NASA, recovering from the four hurricanes that halted work at its Florida spaceport, said on Friday it has set a launch target in May, 2005, for the first space shuttle flight since the 2003 Columbia disaster.
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BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan  - The United States'  grounded Space Shuttle fleet may resume flights to the  International Space Station (ISS) next May or June, a senior  ISS official said Tuesday.
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For the first time in almost a year, NASA was set to launch a space shuttle Saturday on a mission that will test whether the space agency has reduced the risks of flying in the 25-year-old vehicles.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA planned to try again on Saturday to launch the shuttle Discovery on a mission to rewire the International Space Station, but the weather forecast kept the nighttime launch in doubt.
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Last year a chunk of the foam damaged a wing of the Columbia, leading to the breakup of the shuttle high over Texas. NASA is aiming for three shuttle flights in 2005.
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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.