Astronauts wrestle with space station's solar panel
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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station ran into a jam trying to fold up one of the station's solar wing panels on Wednesday, a key step in the mission to rewire the outpost's electrical system.
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By Traci Watson  A pair of astronauts from space shuttle Discovery undertook a risky spacewalk Monday to prod a jammed solar panel on the International Space Station into place so the station can be finished.
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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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NASA engineers pondered how best to fix  a tear in space shuttle Atlantis&#39; heat shield while a new pair  of electricity-generating solar panels were unfurled on the  International Space Station on Tuesday.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Two astronauts floated outside the international space station Saturday aiming to finish up rewiring the orbiting outpost and getting a stubborn solar array folded up so that a fourth, unplanned spacewalk isn't needed. U.S.
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By John Schwartz New York Times News Service  HOUSTON -- Two astronauts made spacewalking look easy on Tuesday as they hooked up the newest part of the International Space Station, a 35,000-pound truss with a solar array that will provide additional power to the station.
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By Mike Schneider  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A pair of spacewalkers manually shaking a stubborn solar array managed to free some stuck grommets Saturday, but not enough to fold the array up into a box properly.
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A pair of spacewalkers shaking a solar array on the International Space Station managed to free some stuck grommets, but they could not get the array to fold into a box properly.
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HOUSTON -- Two spacewalkers performed a bit of heat shield surgery and wrestled an old solar wing into submission outside the International Space Station (ISS) Friday, as critical Russian computers were reactivated inside the orbital laboratory.
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International Space Station flight engineer Thomas Reiter performed exercises to try to correct a stubborn solar array, NASA officials in Houston said.
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Two spacewalking astronauts unbolted a  huge solar power truss from the International Space Station on  Sunday to get it ready for a move to a new place on the space  outpost.
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Two astronauts floated outside the international space station Wednesday to help fold up a solar wing and bring to life a rotating joint that will allow a new pair of solar arrays to track the sun.
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Spacewalking astronauts doing construction work outside the international space station Sunday made a disturbing discovery: what appear to be metal shavings inside a joint that is needed to turn a set of solar power panels.
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Two spacewalking astronauts finished folding up a stubborn, accordion-like solar array Monday, resolving the only complication in space shuttle Discovery's otherwise smooth mission to the international space station.
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HOUSTON - Two spacewalking astronauts helped pry a massive solar power tower from its perch atop the International Space Station (ISS) Sunday and discovered odd metal shavings in a large joint that turns the orbital lab's starboard solar arrays.
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A solar power panel ripped as it was being unfurled from a newly reinstalled girder on the International Space Station on Tuesday, forcing NASA to halt the operation and throwing expansion plans into doubt.
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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station abandoned troubleshooting efforts on a jammed solar panel on Wednesday, leaving it half extended, and went forward with the next steps in their mission to rewire the outpost's electrical system.