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The space shuttle Endeavor successfully touched down at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) at 0948 EDT (1448 GMT) today, in a picture-perfect procedure that could be watched online at NASA TV. Having successfully completed its 16-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS), the shuttle crew is now scheduled to e... |
31 July 2009
11:05 GMT |
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On the eve of their planned landing today, scheduled to take place at 10:48 am EDT (1448 GMT) at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), in Cape Canaveral, Florida, space shuttle Endeavor astronauts deployed yesterday a number of small satellites into orbit. The two sets of observatories were jettisoned from the craft's... |
31 July 2009
03:03 GMT |
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The seven-astronaut crew aboard the space shuttle Endeavor performed today the final heat-shield verification using the standard NASA sensor-laden inspection pole before Friday's attempt to land at the Kennedy Space Center, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The stakes are very high, so the crew took their time wieldin... |
29 July 2009
10:42 GMT |
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After more than 11 days of flying in low-Earth orbit attached to a port on the International Space Station, the space shuttle Endeavor finally concluded its assembly stage of the mission, and undocked from the international outpost yesterday, at 1:26 pm EDT (1726 GMT). During its stay, astronauts performed five space... |
29 July 2009
01:29 GMT |
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A picture of the International Space Station (ISS) and the docked space shuttle Endeavor passing in front of the Sun was recently made available by photographer Thierry Legault, Wired reports. Known for his amazing skills at surprising moments such as this one, the artist uses special solar filters that allow him to ... |
28 July 2009
03:39 GMT |
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Experts at NASA announced yesterday that they had managed to bring the American-built Carbon Dioxide Removal Assembly (CDRA) air scrubber back online on Sunday, after it broke down on Saturday. While engineers back on Earth are still looking for the original source of the glitch, the 13 astronauts aboard the Internat... |
27 July 2009
02:20 GMT |
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Russian mission controllers announced the successful launch of the unmanned Progress 34 (M-67) spacecraft, which carries supplies for the International Space Station. The successful take-off took place at the RosCosmos-operated Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, at 6:56 am EDT (1056 GMT) on July 24th. The automated ... |
25 July 2009
05:02 GMT |
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Very few people have actually given sneezing in space a thought, but astronauts learn the hard way that doing it right can be crucial to the success of their mission. That is to say, while the outside of a spacesuit helmet can be wiped with relative ease during an extra-vehicular activity (EVA), the interior not tha... |
22 July 2009
02:39 GMT |
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NASA has announced that one of the toilets aboard the International Space Station (ISS) has been taken out of commission, having shown signs of malfunction. Brian Smith, the flight director for the orbital station, says in a statement that engineers are, at this point, unsure of the extent of the damage. It was not i... |
20 July 2009
03:58 GMT |
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On Sunday, astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) prepared for the second extra-vehicular activity (EVA) of the STS-127 mission, to take place today, when they used the station's robotic arm to unload a spare-part container from Endeavor's cargo bay. The supplies, which are destined for cri... |
20 July 2009
01:46 GMT |
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A month late and after five very frustrating delays because of bad weather and lightning storms, the shuttle Endeavor finally blasted towards the International Space Station late on Wednesday, Space.com informs. The launch took place at 6:03 p.m. EDT (2203 GMT), from Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, with E... |
16 July 2009
08:21 GMT |
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According to weather predictions released by the American space agency's weather office, the space shuttle Endeavor has a 40-percent chance of launching tomorrow, July 11th. The problem is mostly owed to the fact that clouds and incoming storms over the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), in Cape Canaveral, Florida, are... |
10 July 2009
16:01 GMT |
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The seven-astronaut crew that is to fly on the space shuttle Endeavor assembled at the Kennedy Space Center, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, yesterday, to begin preparations for the planned launch of the STS-127 mission to the International Space Station (ISS). After a month of delays, brought forth by two successive lau... |
8 July 2009
01:44 GMT |
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In a test that took place yesterday, July 1st, at the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39A, space shuttle Endeavor's external hydrogen fuel tanks were filled to the brink with propellant, as engineers watched the troublesome valve that kept the shuttle from taking off twice with tension. But, after adding ... |
2 July 2009
04:59 GMT |
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According to a press release published recently on NASA's official website, the agency will perform a full external tank loading test tomorrow (July 1st), in order to accurately assess if the repairs made on the space shuttle Endeavor's external hydrogen tank were successful. The importance of these tests c... |
30 June 2009
02:39 GMT |
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The US government defense system contractor Northrop Grumman has recently announced that the second Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) satellite is completed and awaiting orders from the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), as to its launch date. The classified military satellite will most likely join the first o... |
24 June 2009
10:44 GMT |
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With the STS-127 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) already scrubbed twice, NASA engineers are currently under a lot of pressure to find the faulty hydrogen gas leak, so as to allow the space shuttle to take off on its newly scheduled date, July 11th. Scientists investigating the spacecraft now believe ... |
23 June 2009
09:49 GMT |
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Later tonight, a large Atlas V delivery system is poised to lift the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) probes in lower Earth orbit, and then further into the Moon's. The two unmanned spacecraft are the first robotic probes to be sent forth to the n... |
18 June 2009
10:20 GMT |
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The American space agency announced this morning that the space shuttle Endeavor would not be able to launch today on its STS-127 mission to the International Space Station. A leak in a hydrogen gas tank appeared in the same spot as the one that led to the cancellation of the flight on June 13th, and, after about an ... |
17 June 2009
02:34 GMT |
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NASA announced yesterday afternoon the schedule it had decided for the launches of the space shuttle Endeavor to the International Space Station, as well as for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS). According to the latest information coming in from the Amer... |
16 June 2009
03:39 GMT |
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NASA experts announced on Sunday that they would try to launch the space shuttle Endeavor towards the International Space Station on Wednesday, June 17th, despite the fact that this date would put the STS-127 mission in direct conflict with the launch of the LRO/LCROSS lunar probes. Officials said that it was all a m... |
15 June 2009
01:51 GMT |
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NASA has just recently announced that the space shuttle Endeavor will not launch today (June 13th), because engineers found a fuel leak on one of its tanks. As a result, the launch will be delayed for at least 1 to 4 days, depending on how fast the team can get the damage fixed. To make matters worse, the adjacent co... |
13 June 2009
04:47 GMT |
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When the space shuttle Endeavor links up with the International Space Station, most likely on Monday, the joint crew of the two craft will number 13 astronauts, the largest figure ever recorded on the orbital facility. The number will only be equaled by that recorded a few months ago, when 13 astronauts were flying i... |
12 June 2009
14:21 GMT |
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According to news coming in from the American space agency, the space shuttle Endeavor has been authorized to take off on Saturday, June 13th, from Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The flight will deliver two new modules to the International Space Station, and the crew, in a ser... |
12 June 2009
04:32 GMT |
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If all goes according to plan, Saturday will see the launch of space shuttle Endeavor to the International Space Station, on the STS-127 construction mission. Seven astronauts will spend more than 16 days in space, performing five spacewalks, and upgrading the ISS with improved robotic arms, as well as with two new a... |
9 June 2009
02:59 GMT |
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On Sunday, NASA's engineers managed to successfully move the space shuttle Endeavor from one Kennedy Space Center (KSC) launch pad to the other, in an eight-hour trek that marked the beginning of preparations for the craft's June 13th planned spaceflight to the International Space Station. Until yesterday, ... |
1 June 2009
02:38 GMT |
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Despite the fact that it planned on building on the momentum caused by the STS-125 shuttle repair mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA found itself forced to consider delaying the STS-127 assembly mission to the International Space Station (ISS) by at least a day. The seven-astronaut crew that will fly to the ... |
29 May 2009
14:01 GMT |
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In less than a month, the first long-term JAXA astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS), Koichi Wakata, will be returned to Earth by the space shuttle Endeavor, during the STS-127 assembly mission. Despite the fact that the launch is still some 23 days away, and the docking procedure a couple of days la... |
20 May 2009
10:18 GMT |
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Later today, astronauts aboard the space shuttle Atlantis will bid farewell to the renewed Hubble Space Telescope, after they have managed to successfully install $220 million worth of new instruments aboard the observatory, and also to repair existing damage. In a series of unbelievably long and hard spacewalks, str... |
19 May 2009
10:00 GMT |
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Crew members aboard the newly launched space shuttle Atlantis have begun to conduct their first inspection of the craft's heat shield a few hours ago, an event that has become standard procedure since the Colombia accident, back in 2003. The investigation has even more meaning for Atlantis than it had for Discov... |
12 May 2009
09:38 GMT |
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Every single engineer and every single piece of equipment is ready for space shuttle Atlantis' launch today, NASA officials have announced. The lift-off will take place at 2.01 pm EDT (1801 GMT) from launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, in Florida. Agency workers have also rolled back the protective shrou... |
11 May 2009
01:58 GMT |
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The American space agency gave today its final consent for tomorrow's launch of the space shuttle Atlantis on the fifth and last mission to service the venerable Hubble Space Telescope. So, the spacecraft will blast off on Monday, May 11, at 2:01 pm EDT, from Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, in Cape C... |
10 May 2009
05:00 GMT |
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Officials at the American space agency have deemed it safe for the Atlantis space shuttle to lift off one day earlier than the previously planned May 12th launch date. The move was prompted by concerns that the fifth and final Hubble servicing mission could adversely affect the schedule that NASA had devised for the ... |
4 May 2009
02:40 GMT |
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NASA officials announced on Thursday that they planned to move the STS-125 mission launch date a day earlier, in order to be able to avoid conflicts that may occur with other spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, in Florida. If this new plan is approved next week, then Atlantis could lift off on May 11th, at 2:01 p... |
24 April 2009
02:25 GMT |
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The American space agency announced yesterday that the space shuttle Endeavor would be moved to its Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39B on Friday, April 17th. The 4.2-mile-long track will take approximately 7 hours to complete aboard the crawler-transport, the second largest tracked vehicle in the world. According to... |
14 April 2009
16:01 GMT |
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On May 12th, NASA plans to launch mission STS-125, during which the Atlantis space shuttle will fly the fifth and final repair mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. Because the orbit of the observatory is very different from that of the International Space Station (ISS), if something is to go wrong, the seven-me... |
11 April 2009
05:24 GMT |
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The STS-125 mission is scheduled for lift-off on May 12th, NASA officials have announced, and the Atlantis space shuttle is already in place to complete the task. Early yesterday morning, the Apollo-era crawler vehicle was again used to transport a very important cargo from the KSC preparation building to the seaside... |
1 April 2009
04:23 GMT |
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With the success of the Discovery mission to the ISS, NASA now has a clear path to begin focusing its efforts on the STS-125 mission, the fifth excursion to the Hubble Space Telescope. During this flight, which will be performed by the space shuttle Atlantis, astronauts will perform five spacewalks, in which they wil... |
30 March 2009
04:05 GMT |
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The long-postponed mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope is finally entering a straight line. Next week, the Atlantis space shuttle will be rolled out to Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission will outfit the old telescope with two new instruments, and will also replace two damaged ... |
26 March 2009
04:23 GMT |
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The resilient Mars rover has managed just recently to get a first glimpse of its destination, the Endeavor crater, towards which the robot has been traveling for more than 6 months. It's panoramic cameras have revealed the uplifted rim of the large crater, still a good distance away from the rover's current... |
19 March 2009
03:44 GMT |
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The mission originally targeted the flight to the Hubble Space Telescope at the end of August, but delays related to the time required to build the external liquid fuel tanks of the shuttle have now pushed the date to October 8. The crew of seven participating in the mission will fly on board NASA's Atlantis spa... |
23 May 2008
07:08 GMT |
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The crew participating in the STS-123 mission, on board NASA's space shuttle Endeavor - which had the role of carrying the first section of JAXA's space laboratory Kibo along with the Canadian maintenance robot Dextre to the International Space Station - have recently participated in a news conference in To... |
13 May 2008
08:32 GMT |
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On 8 March, a Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russian astronauts and one South Korean astronaut was sent into space from the Baikonur launchpad in Kazakhstan. After two days of catching up with the ISS, the spacecraft is expected to dock at the International Space Station today at 9:00 a.m. EDT. The two Russian astrona... |
10 April 2008
06:26 GMT |
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After it had missed the first re-entry attempt due to cloudy weather, the space shuttle Endeavor landed at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, at 8:39 p.m. CDT, in complete darkness, thus ending the mission STS-123. Endeavor was supposed to land at 7:05 p.m. CDT, one hour before sunset; but in the last minut... |
27 March 2008
09:31 GMT |
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After 16 days of intense work in space, the crew of mission STS-123 is expected to return to Earth today and land at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. During its 12 days stay at the ISS the space shuttle Endeavor broke yet another record in the build of the space station, with the longest mission ever cond... |
26 March 2008
10:35 GMT |
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Turn your eyes towards the sky once again tonight and observe a unique spectacle of lights, as the International Space Station, the Jules Verne ATV and the space shuttle Endeavor will be located in the same region of the night sky. The triple sighting will only be available on the night of March 25, since tomorrow th... |
25 March 2008
11:48 GMT |
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Yesterday the crew of mission STS-123 rested in the first half of the day, then began packing Endeavor for the re-entry and return to Earth, which is scheduled for Wednesday. The space shuttle is to undock from the International Space Station today at 7:56 p.m. ET, thus completing the longest mission in which a space... |
24 March 2008
05:23 GMT |
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If you are asking yourself the same question that Yasuhiro Togai posed a couple of years ago, then you should probably know that the answer is 'Yes! Boomerangs can fly in space just as well as they do back here on Earth.' Yasuhiro Togai is a Japanese world boomerang champion, and just before the space shutt... |
21 March 2008
10:27 GMT |
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Yesterday, the crew of STS-123 mission executed the scheduled spacewalk to test the new heat-shield repair technique developed by NASA. The Tile Repair Ablator Dispenser, or T-RAD, was designed to be used in the repair of damaged heat tiles covering the underbelly of the space shuttle. The need for a repair technique... |
21 March 2008
09:45 GMT |
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After two days of continuous work, NASA states that the Canadian robot Dextre assembly has been completed. Dextre put out quite a fight on the first spacewalk, when it suffered a power loss which stopped the crew of STS-123 from putting it together. Without power, Dextre was unable to heat the joints of its body, fac... |
17 March 2008
04:34 GMT |
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