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Rocket booster aces cold-temp test | VIDEO
1 Sep 2010 at 9:06am

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Nobel laureates and astronauts demand changes to NASA bill
31 Aug 2010 at 9:23pm
A group of 30 Nobel laureates, NASA astronauts, former NASA senior officials, and other space boosters Tuesday sent a protest letter to Rep. Bart Gordon, D- Tennessee,  the Chairman of the House Sc...

NASA test fires new Ares rocket and ignites more space debate
31 Aug 2010 at 2:13pm
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updates with comments by Rep. Ralph Hall of Texas. RB NASA and contractor ATK on Tuesday successfully fired a 154-foot-long, five-segment solid rocket booster designed to launch the ...

Spacewalk success ? new pump in place aboard station
16 Aug 2010 at 2:20pm
WASHINGTON — The International Space Station should be back to normal in a couple days after NASA astronauts Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson cruised through a seven-hour spacewalk Monday to ...

Third space station repair mission underway
16 Aug 2010 at 8:20am
UPDATE 11:15 AM: The pump has been installed and filled with ammonia coolant. Now the astronauts are cleaning up the work site. A pair of NASA astronauts began a third spacewalk at 6:20 a.m. today ...

NASA removes failed pump from station
11 Aug 2010 at 5:29pm
WASHINGTON — After a frustrating and record-breaking spacewalk on Saturday, two NASA astronauts rebounded Wednesday and removed a broken cooling pump from outside the International Space Station du...

NASA takes second shot at fixing space station today
11 Aug 2010 at 7:46am
UPDATE 3:45 PM: The astronauts are back in the airlock with the door latched. UPDATE 1:40 PM: The spacewalk is proceeding smoothly. About five hours into the mission, the two spacewalkers were able...

NASA sets spacewalk record during repair mission
7 Aug 2010 at 4:33pm
WASHINGTON — Two NASA astronauts failed to remove a broken cooling pump from outside the International Space Station on Saturday after a frustrating eight-hour spacewalk that set the record as the ...

Emergency spacewalk to fix ISS coolant pump underway
7 Aug 2010 at 7:38am
  Two American astronauts stepped outside the International Space Station on Saturday on the first of two emergency spacewalks to swap out an ammonia coolant pump that failed earlier in the week. F...

Space Station spacewalk on tap for Saturday
6 Aug 2010 at 11:11pm
FROM NASA : The International Space Station?s mission management team gave a unanimous ?go? for the first of two spacewalks Saturday to replace a faulty oven-sized cooling system component in the s...

Florida could benefit from planned Boeing spacecraft
6 Aug 2010 at 3:56pm
WASHINGTON — In a matter of days, a presidential task force will unveil its plan on how Florida should spend $40 million in federal funds budgeted to help the Space Coast recover from job losses fo...