In Complicated Mission, Shuttle to Take Big Lab to Space Station -
The space shuttle Discovery is set to deliver the International Space Station’s biggest room, in what its commander calls “a complicated, busy mission” that is scheduled to begin on Saturday.
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National Briefing - Science and Health - Glitch Hinders a Second Day on Mars - Brief -
A communications glitch kept the Phoenix lander from getting instructions for its second day on Mars, mission officials said. But the problem was fixed later in the day, The Associated Press quoted NASA officials as saying. The spacecraft is equipped...
Ernst Stuhlinger, Rocket Scientist Crucial in Space Race, Is Dead at 94 - Obituary (Obit) -
Ernst Stuhlinger, one of the most prominent of the Germans who brought their skills in rocket science to the United States after World War II and a close associate of Wernher von Braun, died Sunday at his home in Huntsville, Ala. He was 94.
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New Challenge for Space Station Crew - A Broken Toilet -
Four words you don’t want to hear in space:
“The toilet is broken.”
The crew aboard the International Space Station is working on a problem with the system for collecting solid and liquid waste, which is a trickier pro...
NASA Spacecraft Ready to Dig on Mars -
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The surface of Mars as seen from the Phoenix Mars Lander after it made a successful landing on Sunday in the northern polar regions of the planet.
PASADENA, Calif. — One day after a picture-p...
Signal From Mars Is Restored -
A satellite radio that carries signals and commands to the Mars Phoenix lander restarted last night, ending a one-day delay in the robotic explorer’s deployment on the Martian surface.
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The UHF radio on the Mars Recon...
Mars Lander Starts Moving Its Robotic Arm -
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A panoramic view taken by NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander shows the sweeping plains of the Martian polar north.
NASA’s Phoenix Mars lander has successfully lifted its robotic arm, mission manage...
