Space Station Unfurls New Solar Panels
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HOUSTON, June 12 -- The international space station deployed  a new power source Tuesday, unfolding a pair of 115-foot-long solar wings like an accordion window blind.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Two spacewalking astronauts successfully rewired half of the international space station on Thursday, a job that when finished will allow the orbiting outpost to double the size of its crew and add two more labs in the coming years.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Dec. 13 -- In fits and starts, NASA began retracting via remote control a 115-foot solar array on the international space station Wednesday, likening the tricky task to refolding a road map and stuffing it into  a glove compartment.
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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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The US space shuttle Atlantis prepared to undock from the International Space Station after astronauts fitted it with new solar panels designed to boost the station's power generating capacity.
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HOUSTON, Sept. 14 -- The two broad wings of the international space station's new solar energy system unfurled smoothly this morning, successfully completing the main task of the shuttle Atlantis mission.
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NASA began slowly unfurling two new  solar energy arrays on the International Space Station on  Thursday in a delicate operation that was temporarily delayed  by a software glitch.
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Two solar energy panels that will   eventually double power to the International Space Station   slowly unfurled on Thursday, wrapping up the most crucial job   of the shuttle Atlantis' flight.
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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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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - Spacewalking astronauts coaxed a balky solar wing panel on the International Space Station into its storage box on Monday, capping a tedious but ultimately successful mission by the shuttle Discovery crew.
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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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Nasa assesses damage to a newly unfurled solar panel at the International Space Station (ISS).
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By Associated Press  HOUSTON -- NASA began retracting an old solar array on the international space station Wednesday to make way for a new array, hoping to avoid the problems that plagued removal of another power- generating wing last year.
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HOUSTON -- Two astronauts primed the International Space Station&#39;s (ISS) newest solar wings for full operations Sunday during an extra spacewalk by NASA&#39;s Atlantis shuttle crew.
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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.
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Two astronauts floated out of the  International Space Station on Friday to complete work on new  solar energy panels in the third and final spacewalk of a  shuttle mission to restart construction of the half-finished  outpost.
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The US space shuttle Atlantis prepared to undock from the International Space Station early Sunday after astronauts outfitted it with new solar panels designed to boost the station's power generating capacity.