NASA managers met Friday and decided to continue processing the shuttle Endeavour for launch June 13 on a five-spacewalk space station assembly mission while continuing an analysis of a short circuit that knocked an avionics unit off line during the shuttle Atlantis’ liftoff May 11.
Space Shuttle OV-104 Atlantis was launched from pad 39A on May 11 at Kennedy Space Center on mission STS-125, Hubble Servicing Mission SM-4.
If everything goes according to plan today, controlled explosives will breach the hull of the Gen. Hoyt S. read more
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Opinion: On the 28th October, 1971, the United Kingdom launched its first – and only – satellite to be carried into orbit by a launch vehicle also designed and built in the UK. The Black Arrow launcher placed the Prospero satellite in low earth orbit some three months after the project had been cancelled by the government.
Atlantis astronauts hope to land Saturday to cap their Hubble repair mission.
The European Space Agency will present four new astronauts on Wednesday, its first new recruits since 1992.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) ? Atlantis? astronauts gingerly dropped the Hubble Space Telescope overboard Tuesday, sending the restored observatory off on a new voyage of discovery and bidding it farewell on behalf of the planet.
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Spacewalking astronauts finished work on the inside of the Hubble Space Telescope today and shut the doors to the treasured observatory, which will never be touched by human hands again.
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May 18, 2009 – Now that ?Breaking News? about impending snowstorms has dissipated, the media has a new reason to interrupt our restful television watching by bombarding us with swine flu updates.
