• Third space station repair mission underway

    Updated: 2010-08-16 01:20:22
    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 to replace a broken cooling pump that failed during a power surge on July 31 aboard the International Space Station. The mission [...]

  • NASA removes failed pump from station

    Updated: 2010-08-11 22:29:07
    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 during a smooth mission that lasted more than seven hours. The successful spacewalk by Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson sets the stage for NASA to install a new [...]

  • NASA takes second shot at fixing space station today

    Updated: 2010-08-11 12:46:06
    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 to extract the failed pump module. Now they’re trying to stow it away. WASHINGTON — Two NASA astronauts will make the second of [...]

  • NASA sets spacewalk record during repair mission

    Updated: 2010-08-07 21:33:33
    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 longest spacewalk ever at the floating observatory. The botched attempt left engineers scrambling to come up with a new repair plan, as the 780-pound cooling [...]

  • Florida could benefit from planned Boeing spacecraft

    Updated: 2010-08-06 20:56:17
    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 following the 2011 retirement of the space shuttle fleet. The deadline for that report is Aug. 15, but other good news [...]

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