NASA Struggles for Shuttles' Return
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Twenty months after the Columbia tragedy, NASA is still struggling to overcome serious engineering hurdles  to resume flying its space shuttles in  March, a task that has become even tougher because of hurricane-caused work stoppages and damage to critical facilities.
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Even as NASA gears up for the space shuttle&#39;s return to flight next year, officials at the space agency are quietly studying the possibility of cutting back its number of missions
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US astronauts were back on board the shuttle Atlantis preparing to undock Tuesday for the long flight back to Earth, after wrapping up their mission at the International Space Station, NASA said.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press writer  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  NASA postponed the return of Atlantis for at least a day and examined the shuttle for damage that could prevent it from making the journey home after a mysterious object apparently fell off the ship in orbit Tuesday.
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By Mike Schneider  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA postponed the return of space shuttle Atlantis for at least a day after a small, mysterious object apparently fell off the ship in orbit Tuesday and raised fears that the spacecraft might not be able to make the journey home.
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By Traci Watson  NASA is learning the hard way that December storms can be just as much of an obstacle to launching a space shuttle as the summer thunderclouds that foiled two liftoffs earlier this year.
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NASA looked to Mother Nature for  guidance on Friday as it sought for a second day to bring space  shuttle Atlantis and seven astronauts home from a two-week-long  mission.
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Disruptions caused by three powerful hurricanes have cost NASA at least a week in its effort to rebound from the Columbia accident with a March shuttle launching, members of an oversight task force said Thursday.
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Rain forced NASA to delay the landing of space shuttle Atlantis in Florida Thursday, but the agency hoped the skies would clear up to return its seven astronauts to Earth later in the day.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA on Tuesday delayed   shuttle Atlantis' homecoming by a day due to bad weather   expected at the Florida landing site and because it wanted time   to examine video of an object seen falling out of the craft.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA hopes to take a   second shot at launching the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis next   week after a lightning strike and threatening weather derailed   plans for an August mission to resume construction of the   International Space Station.
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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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Almost two years after seven astronauts died when Columbia broke up over Texas, NASA is taking a major step toward returning its space shuttles to flight.
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WASHINGTON NASA is taking a major step this week toward returning astronauts to space. Engineers will ship a rocket-fuel tank that has been refitted to avoid the falling debris that caused the
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Blaming the busy hurricane season, NASA has announced that it will delay the space shuttle&#39;s return to space from March or April to a launch in May or July next year.
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Weather concerns are growing as NASA nears its scheduled launch of the shuttle Discovery.
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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.