U.S. urged to keep space shuttle flying past 2010
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - The United States should keep flying the space shuttles past their 2010 retirement date to avoid depending on Russia to fly astronauts to the International Space Station, a U.S. congressman said on Monday.
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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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THE US space agency has given a green light for the resumption of space shuttle flights in May 2005, more than two years after seven astronauts died in the mid-air disintegration of space shuttle Columbia.
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One year after a highly critical report urged NASA to develop the means to fix a broken space shuttle in orbit, the US space agency still could not repair
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NASA hopes to resume space shuttle flights in May 2005, officials said on Friday. But the agency has also confirmed it is considering reducing the number of planned shuttle flights - which could affect the
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The US space agency, NASA, continues work on improving the safety of the space shuttle, before the fleet of orbiters resumes its visits to the international space station next year.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA should use astronauts, not a robot, to carry out a crucial life-prolonging mission to the acclaimed Hubble Space Telescope one last time, a National Academy of Sciences panel concluded Wednesday.
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NASA told the space shuttle Atlantis to stay in orbit while engineers try to identify an object seen floating nearby the spacecraft.
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Cape Canaveral - Nearly two years after Columbia shattered in the sky, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration still has no way of repairing the kind of holes that could doom other shuttles.
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Democratic lawmakers argued Tuesday that Congress should stop spending money on an aircraft that's never become airborne over two decades of research and testing. Republicans pushed for continued support.
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The United States is to resume its space shuttle program next year after the Columbia shuttle tragedy in 2003. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, announced
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The US space agency has pushed back the return to flight of the space shuttles until May at the earliest because of hurricane disruption.
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NASA is working feverishly to return the space shuttle to flight in May 2005, but it may fly without the capability to fix cracks or holes of the type that doomed Columbia in 2003, officials said on Monday.
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The nation&#39;s most prominent science advisers Wednesday urged NASA to send shuttle astronauts instead of robots on a repair mission to the aging Hubble telescope because humans have a substantially greater chance of fixing it.
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SPACE.com / American support remains strong for NASA's plan to complete the International Space Station (ISS), retire its shuttle fleet by decade's end and move on to the Moon and Mars, according to poll results released Monday.
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The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration or NASA is hoping to develop techniques to allow a crew to repair damages to Space Shuttle in flight.
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The space shuttle may begin flying before NASA has a reliable plan to fix damage similar to that which doomed the Columbia shuttle in February 2003, the manager of the shuttle program said Monday.