After a week and a half of complex orbital construction work, Endeavour’s seven astronauts undocked from the international space station and began their journey home.
The space shuttle is scheduled to land on Wednesday at the Kennedy Space Center, ending a record-setting mission to the orbiting outpost. Endeavour’s astronauts will spend Tuesday preparing their ship for […]
As for the jammed rotating solar joint, it’s filled with metal shavings because of grinding parts.
NASA has been trying since last fall to figure out what is broken and how best to fix the joint. Spacewalking astronauts inspected the joint several times before and even collected samples of the steel grit for analysis back on […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Three years after gigantic geysers were spied on an icy Saturn moon, the international Cassini spacecraft is poised to plunge through the fringes of the mysterious plumes to learn how they formed.
Wednesday’s flyby will bring Cassini within 30 miles of the surface of Enceladus (en-SELL’-uh-duhs) at closest approach. The unmanned probe […]
HOUSTON (AP) - Now that the space station’s new robot is fully assembled, astronauts prepared to attach the giant machine directly to the orbiting outpost for the first time on Tuesday.
Astronauts Richard Linnehan and Robert Behnken went on a spacewalk Monday to add a tool belt and two cameras that will serve as the robot’s […]
Spacewalking astronauts added hands to a robot outside the international space station early Friday as experts on the ground prepared to beam up a software patch they hoped would fix a problem getting power to the giant machine.
The Canadian robot, named Dextre, needs to have power to heat its joints, limbs and electronics. The $200 […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Astronauts bound for orbit this week will dabble in science fiction, assembling a “monstrous” two-armed space station robot that will rise like Frankenstein from its transport bed.
Putting together Dextre, the robot, will be one of the main jobs for the seven Endeavour astronauts, who are scheduled to blast off in […]