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The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) had reasons to celebrate yesterday. Everything that went on on the International Space Station was centered around the newly completed Kibo module. With a price tag of more than $1 billion, the most complex laboratory on the ISS used its robotic arm on Thursday to move... |
24 July 2009
01:28 GMT |
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Yesterday, Endeavor Astronauts Dave Wolf and Chris Cassidy performed an extra-vehicular activity (EVA) on the International Space Station (ISS), aimed at replacing a few of the laboratory's oldest batteries. NASA planned that four of six packages be removed during the six-hour spacewalk, but that objective was n... |
23 July 2009
03:44 GMT |
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Four decades after the day Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set foot on the surface of the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission, astronauts currently aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and space shuttle Endeavor marked the moment by performing the second spacewalk of STS-127. Mission specialists Dave Wolf and To... |
21 July 2009
01:37 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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In a very rare type of spacewalk, which took place entirely inside the International Space Station, RosCosmos Cosmonaut Gennedy Padalka and NASA Astronaut Michael Barratt successfully replaced an old door on the station with a conic docking module. In their second spacewalk this week, the two managed to complete thei... |
10 June 2009
07:01 GMT |
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Acting ISS Commander Gennedy Padalka and NASA flight engineer Michael Barratt have finished their scheduled spacewalk for the day, as they successfully installed two new antennas, thus priming the International Space Station for the arrival of a new shuttle mission, later this fall. The extra-vehicular activity (EVA)... |
5 June 2009
10:01 GMT |
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Yesterday's fifth and final servicing spacewalk to repair the aging Hubble Space Telescope was successfully completed by Atlantis Astronauts John Grunsfeld and Andrew Feustel, in seven hours and two minutes. The final upgrades and finishing touches to the space observatory were also added, and the two even manag... |
19 May 2009
01:37 GMT |
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Astronauts John Grunsfeld and Andrew Feustel have just recently begun performing their fifth and final maintenance spacewalk on the Hubble Space Telescope, aiming to install new batteries and another insulating layer on the aging observatory. The batteries have never been changed since the instrument was first delive... |
18 May 2009
09:40 GMT |
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Astronauts Michael Massimino and Michael Good conducted the fourth out of five spacewalks of the STS-125 mission to the Hubble Space Telescope on Sunday, and successfully managed to repair the observatory's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) instrument. Installed in 1997, it failed in 2004, and was neve... |
18 May 2009
02:14 GMT |
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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and the STS-119 Discovery mission will have the rest of Tuesday off from chores, in order to be able to spend some time together, before the shuttle leaves tomorrow. With yesterday's third and final spacewalk complete to a partial success, there are no impo... |
24 March 2009
09:43 GMT |
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The last spacewalk of the STS-119 Discovery mission to the International Space Station ended on a more somber note than NASA experts and crew members would have wanted, as the last objective of the three spacewalks, the deployment of a 5-square foot cargo platform, could not be completed. Despite the astronauts'... |
24 March 2009
06:12 GMT |
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At this time, the third spacewalk of the STS-119 shuttle mission to the International Space Station is already underway, as astronauts are attempting to fix a loose pin that has hindered the deployment of the station's cargo holders, located on the exterior walls of the orbital lab. During today's extra-veh... |
23 March 2009
10:08 GMT |
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On Sunday, the International Space Station was again confronted with the possibility of a violent collision with a piece of space junk, and NASA mission controllers back on Earth asked the crews to reorient the shuttle-space station complex to a modified orbit. This allowed the orbiting lab to significantly increase ... |
23 March 2009
04:47 GMT |
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Astronauts aboard the Discovery space shuttle and the International Space Station seem to have been on their toes ever since the craft docked at the station on Tuesday. On Saturday, the second spacewalk scheduled for the mission was completed successfully, just a day after the ISS' new set of solar wings had bee... |
23 March 2009
04:29 GMT |
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The last array of solar panels has been finally deployed on the International Space Station yesterday, thus completing more than a decade of construction efforts. The new wings bring the lab to its full electricity-generating potential, and the station is now completely able to support a permanent six-member crew... |
21 March 2009
05:24 GMT |
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On Thursday, two Discovery astronauts spent little over six hours installing the new S6 truss rod segment to the International Space Station (ISS)' starboard side. The operations began at 1:16 pm EDT (1716 GMT), and were carried out by mission specialists Steven Swanson and Richard Arnold II. With the successful... |
20 March 2009
03:18 GMT |
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Yesterday, a pair of astronauts currently on mission on the International Space Station (ISS) performed a spacewalk, preparing the orbital facility for the visit they would receive on Friday from NASA's Discovery shuttle. The mission will install the last array of solar panels, which will upgrade the facility to... |
11 March 2009
03:22 GMT |
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On Tuesday, Russian and American personnel did another spacewalk alongside the International Space Station (ISS), as they installed an automated probe, whose goal is to interpret and deliver data on the status of the Russian module attached to the station. During the six-hour long walk, the team conducted maintenance... |
24 December 2008
01:01 GMT |
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Finally, after several delays, the spaceship Endeavour and its crew touched down safely on a temporary runway in California, instead of the original designated place, which was regularly used – the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The detour was resorted to due to the poor weather conditions in Florida, where s... |
1 December 2008
14:01 GMT |
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Upon analyzing the possible object that could have stricken the space shuttle Endeavor during the liftoff on Tuesday, NASA engineers concluded that it could have only been a bird which actually missed the orbiter. The inspection of the Endeavor's thermal shield revealed no problems, thus it is clear for the re-e... |
14 March 2008
07:47 GMT |
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Nobody's made out of stone and unpredictable events do happen from time to time, when you less expect them, even if you work for NASA. The Columbus module installation has been delayed with one day, due to certain medical issues experienced by European Space Agency astronaut Hans Schlegel, who is to be replaced ... |
11 February 2008
03:04 GMT |
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Spacewalks may provide a unique experience and only astronauts know what it feels like to know there is nothing between you and the Earth or how it feels to look at the Moon and at an entire continent the next moment.It's also true that only they know how much work a spacewalk is all about, as station Cmdr. Fyo... |
18 July 2007
09:46 GMT |
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