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 - Working with space caulk guns anda pair of scrapers, two NASA astronauts put a black, sticky goo through itspaces during a Wednesday spacewalk to test basic shuttle heat shield ...
A pair of astronauts ended a spacewalk early on Friday in which they tested a repair procedure for the heat shields on the space shuttle fleet – a technique NASA hopes it never needs to use. “I think ...
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 ...
Designing and testing such a repair kit is a key part of NASA's efforts to return the space shuttle to orbit in the wake of the Feb. 1 accident that destroyed Columbia and killed seven astronauts. The ...
NASA announced April 17 it has pulled a spacewalk dedicated to heat shield repair techniques from the schedule of its next space shuttle flight to make way for additional inspections to be conducted ...
Houston, March 21 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) -- After completing a spacewalk to test a shuttle heat shield repair technique, astronauts aboard Endeavour on Friday used a ...
The Artemis II crew comprises NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency ...
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 ...