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Shuttle lands in California
Posted: Tue, Aug 9 10:36 AM ET (1436 GMT)
The space shuttle Discovery landed successfully in California early Tuesday after weather prevented two landing attempts in Florida. Discovery touched down on Runway 22 at...

Weather delays shuttle landing
Posted: Mon, Aug 8 8:56 AM ET (1256 GMT)
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NASA still planning September launch of Atlantis
Posted: Sun, Aug 7 1:55 PM ET (1755 GMT)
Top NASA officials said Friday that they were still planning to launch the shuttle Atlantis in September, albeit later than previously planned, despite an ongoing...

Shuttle undocks from ISS
Posted: Sat, Aug 6 11:02 AM ET (1502 GMT)
The space shuttle Discovery undocked from the International Space Station early Saturday in preparation for its return to Earth Monday. Discovery undocked from the station'...

NASA nixes fourth spacewalk
Posted: Fri, Aug 5 7:32 AM ET (1132 GMT)
Shuttle officials decided Thursday that the crew of the space shuttle Discovery did not need to conduct an additional EVA to repair a damaged thermal...

Satellite radio firm has IPO
Posted: Fri, Aug 5 7:26 AM ET (1126 GMT)
WorldSpace, the first commercial satellite radio company, completed an initial public offering (IPO) of its stock on Thursday, with shares rising during the first day...

Study: Titan's surface may be dry
Posted: Thu, Aug 4 7:41 AM ET (1141 GMT)
The surface of Saturn's moon Titan, once thought to harbor large lakes or seas of liquid hydrocarbons, may in fact be dry, according to...

China launches recoverable satellite
Posted: Thu, Aug 4 7:30 AM ET (1130 GMT)
A Long March rocket successfully launched this week a recoverable satellite said to contain a scientific payload. The Long March 2C booster lifted off from...

Gap fillers removed during spacewalk
Posted: Wed, Aug 3 11:28 PM ET (0328 GMT)
Astronaut Steve Robinson easily removed two protruding gap fillers from the underside of the space shuttle Discovery during a spacewalk Wednesday morning. Attached to the...

Engineers investigating damaged shuttle thermal blanket
Posted: Wed, Aug 3 8:43 AM ET (1243 GMT)
NASA shuttle managers said late Tuesday they are studying what appears to be a debris hit on a thermal blanket near the front windows of...



news in brief
Astronauts install solar panel on ISS spacewalk
Posted: Sat, Oct 31 10:49 AM ET (1449 GMT)

Vulcan to return to flight in mid-November
Posted: Sat, Oct 31 10:43 AM ET (1443 GMT)

New Virgin Galactic spaceplane arrives at Spaceport America
Posted: Sat, Oct 31 10:38 AM ET (1438 GMT)

news links
Wednesday, November 4
10 asteroid mysteries that Hera will explore
ESA — 5:56 am ET (1056 GMT)
Time to wake up MetOp-SG-B1 weather satellite
ESA — 5:55 am ET (1055 GMT)


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