HOUSTON - NASA is more confident in itsability to make minor in-flight repairs to a shuttle's heat shield after asuccessful test during a Wednesdayspacewalk outside the Discovery orbiter, according to ...

HOUSTON — Astronaut Steve Robinson will make an unprecedented spacewalk beneath the belly of shuttle Discovery tomorrow to remove two small strips of material sticking out of the ship’s heat shielding ...

HOUSTON --Spacewalking astronauts will not have to perform an unprecedented spacewalkrepair to fill in a gouge on their orbiter's belly-mounted heat shield, missionmanagers said late Thursday. After a ...

Two spacewalking astronauts, working outside the international space station late Thursday, wrapped up tests with a gooey repair material for damaged shuttle heat shielding that NASA hopes it never ...

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Houston - Nasa got a closer look on Sunday at a small, but deep gouge in the belly of the space shuttle Endeavour and said it had not decided whether it needed a repair to ensure the ship's safe ...

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are preparing for a spacewalk on Thursday to test a heat shield repair technique and replace a failed circuit breaker. It will be the fourth of five ...

Determined not to lose another space shuttle and crew, NASA decided yesterday to send one of Discovery's astronauts on a risky spacewalk to the ship's fragile underside to smooth protruding fibres in ...

The U.S. space agency NASA has ordered astronauts aboard the shuttle Discovery to make unprecedented repairs to its exterior heat shield during a spacewalk Wednesday. Missions officials say there is a ...

The crew of space shuttle Discovery crew is confident that the heat shield repair they have been asked to perform is relatively simple and the safest option for the shuttle. “The task is extremely ...