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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Although still more work needs to be done, NASA officials said Monday that they were close to meeting all safety requirements for getting space shuttles flying again by the spring.
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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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The US space agency NASA says it has pushed the resumption of space shuttle flights back one or two months until at least May next year.
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The space shuttle should be used to service the Hubble Space Telescope and can do the job  without posing unacceptable risks to the astronauts, NASA's leadership was told Wednesday.-The Washington Post
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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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NASA -- A decade in Mission Control for native Texan Steve Walker has seen him help steer the Space Shuttle to historic destinations. Among them were the Russian Mir Space Station, the Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station...
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The space shuttle will not fly before May 2005, according to NASA officials. This pushes the shuttle&#39;s return-to-flight schedule back by two months, and postpones a vital servicing mission to the International Space Station.
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WASHINGTON -- President George W. Bush is proposing a largely stay-the-course budget for NASA, holding the U.S. space agency to an increase for 2009 that would be less than the rate of inflation.
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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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A weather front that triggered deadly tornadoes in several southern US states could delay the scheduled lift-off of the Atlantis space shuttle, NASA experts said Wednesday.
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NASA has announced that the Space Shuttle will take to the skies once more next year, in a launch window that lasts from mid May to early June.
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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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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 says it hopes shuttle flights, suspended since the Columbia disaster, can begin next May.
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NASA (news - web sites) is close to meeting all of the return-to-flight safety requirements set by Columbia accident investigators and should be able to launch a shuttle by May 2005, shuttle program officials said today.
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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.