NASA&#39;s backup plan involves rescue shuttles, space station
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Significant technical challenges, particularly trouble encountered while developing a way to repair severe wing panel damage, have led NASA to develop an unprecedented backup plan.
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NASA has again adjusted its schedule for bringing the space shuttle back into use. CBS reports that the space agency announced it is aiming for a mid-May launch.
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NASA is looking to share unused space aboard the International Space Station for science experiments, officials said.
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Flush with a newly approved $16.2 billion budget, NASA will be able to flesh out a way to save the Hubble Space Telescope, choose a new spacecraft and develop new ways to get back to the moon, Administrator Sean O&#39;Keefe said Tuesday.
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Russian and NASA engineers worked into the evening yesterday to figure out why two computer systems essential to the operation of the international space station crashed, and the agency began making contingency plans that include potentially abandoning the $100 billion facility if they should fail.
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Russia&#39;s Federal Space Agency and the US&#39;s NASA have approved the crew of the next mission to the international space station, an agency spokesman said Tuesday.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - Crews aboard the space shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station revived the third and final part of the station's prime computer network on Saturday and scoured the complex for the cause of the crash.
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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 will take a key step to returning astronauts to space when engineers ship a fuel tank that has been refitted. All this too decrease the likelihood of falling debris that caused the destruction of the space shuttle Columbia, officials said Tuesday.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - U.S. and Russian flight controllers worked to fully restore computers aboard the International Space Station on Thursday after a system crash that could force the $100 billion outpost's crew back to Earth.
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The space shuttles, the United States' only manned spacecraft, are to be retired in 2010 and the work of caring for the International Space Station will be largely turned over to others.
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NASA made plans Thursday to possibly extend the space shuttle's stay at the International Space Station because of malfunctioning computers.
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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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NASA unveiled plans yesterday to set up a small and ultimately self-sustaining settlement of astronauts at the south pole of the moon sometime around 2020 -- the first step in an ambitious plan to resume manned exploration of the solar system.
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NASA said Tuesday it is moving ahead with plans to send a robot to the rescue of the aging Hubble Space Telescope.
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The United States and Russia are making contingency plans for an emergency evacuation of the two-man crew aboard the International Space Station .
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By LOS ANGELES TIMES  The crew of the space shuttle Atlantis successfully attached a 35,000-pound truss to the International Space Station, preparing the way for Japanese and European science labs that will be added next year.