Julie Payette said her farewells to her fellow Canadian Robert Thirsk on the International Space Station and has started it's return to earth. The shuttle landed in Florida at 10:48 am EDT. Endeavour spend...
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The shuttle has five on-board computers for data processing and flight control. Computers control most systems on launches and landings: Pilots fly the shuttle through the computers. It takes...
The launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour has been delayed until Sunday July 12 due to thunderstorms making it difficult for the craft to take off. The launch was already delayed by 24 hours due to lightning...
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" Payette, 45, and her team are headed for a 16-day mission focusing mostly on construction. The crew will complete the assembly of the $1-billion U.S. Japanese Kibo science laboratory aboard the orbiting...
The space shuttle Endeavour is set to launch on Wednesday, June 17 at 5:40am EDT. Friday's launch was aborted after a safety check uncovered a hydrogen venting leak. NASA is anticipating no further delays once the...
Update: June 13"CAPE CANAVERAL (Florida) - NASA delayed the launch of space shuttle Endeavour on Saturday by at least four days because of a potentially dangerous hydrogen gas leak similar to one that cropped up...
The Space Shuttle Endeavour is on its way back to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Mounted atop its modified Boeing 747 carrier aircraft, Endeavour was carried aloft on the first leg of its trip back to...
With only 24 hours left before space shuttle Endeavour comes back to earth, Mission Control is saying the weather may be a bit questionable for the main landing site, and as a result they could be kept up for one...
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The new toilet is plumbed-in, the water recycling system is working and the jammed solar-wing has been repaired. With space shuttle mission STS-126 nearly complete, the crew of the International Space...
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The hatches between the International Space Station and Space Shuttle Endeavour are now open. Space shuttle Endeavour linked with the international space station on Sunday, kicking off a huge home makeover that...
" The international space station's three crew members Sunday welcomed aboard space shuttle Endeavour's seven astronauts, who arrived to help install more living areas and upgrade amenities. The...
"CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Space shuttle Endeavour's astronauts unfurled a 100-foot, laser-tipped pole and surveyed their ship for any launch damage Saturday while drawing ever closer to their destination,...
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In the spirit of National Recycling week, NASA will be sending up a water recycling device to the International Space Station that will recycle urine into drinking water. This coincides with the move to double the...
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"HOUSTON, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- U.S. space officials moved the target launch date for the Shuttle Atlantis mission to the Hubble Space Telescope back two days to Oct. 10. The decision was made after Atlantis was rolled to the launch pad Thursday, NASA said Friday in a release....
"The human race will find life elsewhere in the universe as it pushes ahead with space exploration, astronauts back from the latest US space mission said Monday."If we push back boundaries far enough, I'm sure...
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