German Astronaut Says Space Station Leak Not Bad
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COLOGNE, Germany - The chemical leak in the International Space Station earlier this week was much less dramatic than it initially appeared and did not cause anyone to fall ill, German astronaut Thomas Reiter said Friday.
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Hans Schlegel, a European Space Agency astronaut from Germany, will replaced by Stanley G. on the delayed spacewalk.
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Spill a little wasabi at home and, well, it's messy. Spill some in the weightlessness of the international space station and you're looking at a major cleanup job. By the Associated Press.
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KOROLYOV, Russia  - The capsule carrying the first paying female space tourist docked smoothly at the international space station Wednesday.
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NASA's safety chief said yesterday that he could find no evidence of heavy drinking by astronauts before space launches -- undermining but not dismissing reports from an independent panel on astronaut health issues that said last month that at least two such incidents had come to its attention.
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Astronauts on the International Space   Station put on protective clothing after reporting a   foul-smelling vapor on Monday, but the three crew members were   not in danger, NASA said.
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Parts of the International Space Station lost power for much of Sunday, but the three-member crew wasn't at risk and everything was fixed by Monday morning, officials said.
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NASA reported a bad smell on the   International Space Station on Monday but said there was no   smoke on the outpost.
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NEAR ARKALYK, Kazakhstan  - A Soyuz capsule made a  soft landing in the pitch-dark in Kazakhstan's steppes on  Sunday, and its U.S.-Russian crew said they were happy to  breathe in the smell of Earth after a long stint in orbit.
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(CBS/AP) Space station commander Gennady Padalka and flight engineer Michael Fincke completed a five-hour 21-minute spacewalk, successfully installing a new coolant system component and three antennas that an unmanned European cargo craft will use for
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SeaDour writes &quot;As if the failed oxygen generator on the International Space Station wasn&#39;t bad enough, rumor has it that the planned launch of a Russian Soyuz capsule to change crews onboard the station may be delayed due to a mishap during ground testing
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Despite all the vibrations of a German astronaut excercising, a solar array on the International Space Station remained stuck and could require a fourth spacewalk to fold it away, NASA has said.
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The main oxygen generator aboard the International Space Station, which has been malfunctioning since last month, was partially repaired using spare parts that arrived last week.
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NASA engineers are assessing two small areas on the space shuttle Atlantis that may have received some damage during Thursday's launch and ascent, officials said Saturday. In addition, a spacewalk scheduled for Sunday has been postponed until Monday, with one of the two astronauts scheduled to take it -- Germany's Hans Schlegel -- to be replaced.
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Days away from ending a six-month mission in space, U.S. astronaut Michael Fincke said on Wednesday he is looking forward to meeting his 4-month-old daughter.
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US astronaut Mike Fincke descended safely to Earth with two cosmonauts aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule late Saturday, Houston time, to end a six-month stay aboard the international space station.
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NASA&#8217;s process for monitoring the physical and mental health of its Astronaut Corps is sound, despite the stunning arrest of spaceflyer and mission specialist Lisa Nowak this week, a former NASA psychiatrist said Wednesday.