CAPE CANAVERAL — NASA will start repairing serious damage at Kennedy Space Center’s launch pad 39A today, but the work isn’t expected to delay the planned Oct. 8 launch of a Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.
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Asparagus could have good life on Mars
WASHINGTON: Martian dirt was apparently good enough for asparagus to grow in, NASA scientists said yesterday as they announced the results of a soil analysis collected by the US Phoenix Mars lander.
NASA starts launch pad repairs; Hubble mission won’t be delayed
NASA will start repairing serious damage at Kennedy Space Center’s launch pad 39A today, but the work isn’t expected to delay the planned Oct. 8 launch of a Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.
NASA approves space shuttle launch pad repair plan
Shuttle program managers today approved a plan to strip away fire bricks from damaged sections of the “flame trench” at launch pad 39A, to erect a steel grid over the exposed concrete back wall and to spray on a thick coating of heat-resistant Fondu Fyre to protect the structure from super-hot shuttle booster exhaust.
NASA to fix damaged launch pad
NASA will start fixing a damaged Florida launch pad Friday in preparation for the October launch of space shuttle Atlantis in a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
NASA repair plan will keep shuttle launch pad until 2010
NASA settled Thursday on a $2.7 million repair plan to keep a 40-year-old shuttle launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida intact until the winged space ships are retired in 2010.
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Pad repairs won’t delay Hubble mission
NASA settled on a go-forward plan today for repairs to the damaged flame trench at Kennedy Space Center’s launch pad 39A, and officials say the work will not trigger a delay in the planned Oct. 8 launch of Atlantis and seven astronauts on NASA’s fifth and final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.
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