Topic: Space Shuttles
'Fly Me to the Moon?' NASA asks public to pick astronaut wake-up music for last shuttle tripsNow's your chance to help pick astronauts' wake-up music. NASA is holding a first-of-its-kind contest to select some songs that will rouse the crews of the ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A pair of spacewalking astronauts revived the International Space Station's cooling system on Monday during a third outing to replace a failed pump. Station flight engineers Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson slipped outside the orbital complex ...
Legendary former US Senator Ted Stevens was among five fatalities after a small plane carrying nine people slammed into a remote Alaska mountainside, officials said Tuesday. Stevens, 86, the longest-serving Republican in Senate history before being voted out of office in 2008, ...
Today in HistoryToday is Monday, Aug. 9, the 221st day of 2010. There are 144 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Aug. 9, 1945, three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, the United States exploded a ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - One of two cooling systems serving the International Space Station's U.S., European and Japanese laboratories broke down, setting off a wave of equipment shutdowns to cut the amount of heat generated on board, NASA officials said on ...
A failure of the cooling system on the International Space Station forced astronauts to reroute power as NASA planned emergency spacewalks to fix the problem. One of two cooling loops shut down Saturday night, triggering alarms throughout the orbiting station, which is ...
Space shuttle's contractor laying off 1,400 workers in the fall as part of planned reductionsThe private contractor that handles the bulk of the work servicing NASA's space shuttle fleet is notifying 1,400 employees in Florida, Texas and Alabama that they will be ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA's prime space shuttle contractor, United Space Alliance, sent layoff notices this week to more than 15 percent of its 8,100-member shuttle work force, officials said on Tuesday. The layoffs, which take effect October 1, involve 902 ...
A key Senate panel approved Thursday a 2011 budget proposal for the US space agency NASA that would extend the space shuttle program in a compromise from the Obama administration's demands. Republican and Democratic members of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation ...
A key Senate panel approved Thursday a 2011 budget proposal for the US space agency NASA that would extend the space shuttle program in a compromise from the Obama administration's demands. Republican and Democratic members of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation ...
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