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Stormy weather could postpone the last-ever flight of the US shuttle program by delaying Atlantis's final mission to the International Space Station a day or two, NASA said Wednesday.A tropical storm system moving north from the Caribbean is expected to bring rain, ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Six astronauts were forced to take refuge aboard the International Space Station's "lifeboat" crafts on Tuesday, bracing for the threat of a collision with floating space debris, the Russian space agency said."A situation arose linked to unidentified 'space trash' ...

NASA on Tuesday released the first ever pictures of a US space shuttle docked at the International Space Station, taken by astronauts aboard a departing Russian spacecraft last month.The shots of the shuttle Endeavour were taken by Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli as ...

A US astronaut Drew Feustel learned a valuable lesson about being teary-eyed on a spacewalk, NASA said Wednesday after the Endeavour crew's third jaunt outside the International Space Station."Tears in space don't run down your face," he said, according to lead spacewalk ...

US astronauts on Tuesday will try out a new set of exercises to prepare them for the change in pressure they encounter on their spacewalk outside the International Space Station, NASA said.Known in part as the "slow motion hokey pokey," the exercises ...

Two astronauts on Sunday began a second of four scheduled space walks of the Endeavour shuttle's final mission to the International Space Station (ISS), the US space agency announced.Drew Feustel and Mike Fincke emerged from a decompression chamber at 0605 GMT, or ...

NASA took a closer look Saturday at a damaged heat shield tile on the underbelly of the space shuttle Endeavour, after astronauts chatted with Pope Benedict XVI for the first-ever papal video call to space.Mission managers, who have downplayed the inspection as ...

Astronauts installed a massive physics experiment at the International Space Station on Thursday, the fourth day of the US shuttle Endeavour's 16-day mission to spruce up the orbiting lab.The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 is a $2-billion, 15,000-pound (7,000-kilogram) particle detector that will remain ...

Astronauts prepared to install a massive physics experiment at the International Space Station on Thursday, the fourth day of the US shuttle Endeavour's 16-day mission to spruce up the orbiting lab.The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 is a $2 billion dollar, 15,000 pound (7,000 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Astronauts aboard the International Space Station prepared to install a $2 billion particle detector outside the orbiting outpost after shuttle Endeavour arrived on Wednesday on NASA's next-to-last shuttle mission.Endeavour's two-day trip to the station ended at 6:14 ...

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Topic: International Space Station

Gloomy weather could delay Friday shuttle launch

Space debris risks colliding with orbital station

NASA releases first photo of shuttle docked in space

US astronaut grapples with 'tears in space'

Astronauts to try spacewalk 'hokey pokey': NASA

Shuttle astronauts begin second space walk

ISS astronauts inspect tile damage, chat with pope

Astronauts unload space-scanner at station

Astronauts to unload space-scanner at station

Shuttle docks, astronauts to install $2 billion device

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