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NASA is delaying next month's shuttle launch to the Hubble Space Telescope because of problems stemming from Hurricane Ike and replacement parts for the observatory.NASA is delaying next month's shuttle launch to the Hubble Space Telescope... more
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Endeavour's astronauts embarked on the fifth and final spacewalk of their mission Saturday, this time attaching a 50-foot inspection pole to the international space station for use by the next shuttle visitors.
Michael Foreman and Robert Behnken floated out the hatch late in the afternoon as the linked shuttle and station soared more than 200 miles above the Pacific. They spacewalked the night away, successfully accomplishing all their work.
Endeavour's astronauts embarked on the fifth and final spacewalk of their mission... more
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"A TUAW reader has managed to spot an iPod onboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour, which is currently floating around in a giant vacuum. The hawk-eyed reader spotted the iPod from official NASA photos, which showed the device, barely visible, through a cabin window.""A TUAW reader has managed to spot an iPod onboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour,... more
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Following the start of their 16-day-mission, astronauts on the space shuttle Endeavour have begun their work thousands of miles above our heads.
The space-explorers have paralysed a $200m (£100m) robot at the international space station and are now awaiting a software patch to be beamed up so they can fix it, if the patch or install fails, then the astronauts could be facing another spacewalk to mend the apparatus that is designed to help astronauts avoid difficult and dangerous spacewalks for repairs to the space station.
The astronauts had managed to piece the nine separate pieces of the robot, but were left stumped when the software didn't work. Following the start of their 16-day-mission, astronauts on the space shuttle Endeavour... more
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