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 — Astronaut Steve Robinson will make an unprecedented spacewalk beneath the belly of shuttle Discovery tomorrow to remove two small strips of material sticking out of the ship’s heat shielding ...

HOUSTON --Spacewalking astronauts will not have to perform an unprecedented spacewalkrepair to fill in a gouge on their orbiter's belly-mounted heat shield, missionmanagers said late Thursday. After a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Houston - Nasa got a closer look on Sunday at a small, but deep gouge in the belly of the space shuttle Endeavour and said it had not decided whether it needed a repair to ensure the ship's safe ...

NASA engineers are taking a close look at several spots on the space shuttle Endeavour's belly where its vital heat shield tiles were during the spacecraft's launch earlier this week. Endeavour ...

The U.S. space agency NASA has ordered astronauts aboard the shuttle Discovery to make unprecedented repairs to its exterior heat shield during a spacewalk Wednesday. Missions officials say there is a ...

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 ...