NASA managers were still evaluating Atlantis' heat shield Wednesday, a day before the space shuttle was planned to land in Florida where a forecast for thunderstorms appeared to be the main obstacle ...
This story was updated at 8:30 a.m. EDT. The space shuttle Atlantis' astronauts have begun a careful inspection of their orbiter's heat shield today (July 9) to make sure it wasn't damaged during the ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Astronauts aboard NASA's space shuttle Atlantis once morescanned their spacecraft's heat shield Monday, this time in search of any signsof strikes by micrometeoritesor orbital ...
HOUSTON - The six-astronaut crew of NASA's shuttle Atlantis will not haveto wedge extra inspections into an already packed flight to the International SpaceStation (ISS), NASA officials said late ...