NASA&#39;s Return to Flight on Track, Shuttle Officials Say
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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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The space shuttle may begin flying before NASA has a reliable plan to fix damage similar to that which doomed the Columbia shuttle in February 2003, the manager of the shuttle program said Monday.
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NASA is close  to&nbsp;meeting all&nbsp;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 said Thursday it had corrected flaws that caused the destruction of the space shuttle Columbia in February 2003 and that a modified shuttle would be ready to resume flights sometime next Spring.
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Six months before NASA plans to return the shuttle to space, officials think they&#39;ve essentially solved the problem that doomed Columbia in 2003 - debris coming off
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By Martin Merzer, The Miami Herald  Jun. 21--CAPE CANAVERAL -- Mission managers declared shuttle Atlantis fit to return to Earth today, but a higher authority -- nature -- might give the seven astronauts an extra day in space.
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NASA was optimistic that the shuttle Atlantis will finally lift off Wednesday on a mission to resume construction of the International Space Station (ISS) after three scrubbed attempts last week.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Preparations for a Friday evening liftoff of the shuttle Atlantis are still on track despite weather forecasts of possible hail in the days leading up to launch.
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Summary - (Nov 1, 2004) Grounded since the Columbia disaster, the space shuttles are tentatively expected to return to flight as early as May 2005, according to NASA officials.
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  NASA declared that it's back in the space- station assembly business Thursday after shuttle Atlantis and its six astronauts safely returned from a 12-day mission to install a new piece of the orbiting outpost.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - The U.S. space shuttle   Atlantis returned safely to its Florida home port on Thursday,   capping a successful mission to resume International Space   Station construction after the 2003 Columbia accident.
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Nasa officials scrutinising the launch of space shuttle Atlantis say debris did hit, but  there was no visible damage.
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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 said its systems were in good shape and the countdown was going well for Thursday's launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery's mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
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NASA is making progress in its return to flight efforts, despite suffering setbacks from a recent rash of hurricanes that have pummeled the nation's space coast, according to the task force overseeing the agency's work.
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Even as NASA marks the second anniversary of the Columbia accident, and the tragic loss of seven astronauts returning home after a successful flight, agency officials and astronauts are looking&nbsp;toward&nbsp;a return to space shuttle flights.
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As space shuttle Atlantis crew members continued their return trip to Earth on Wednesday, they waited for results of a final inspection of the spacecraft to make sure its heat shield was in good shape.