NASA unveils redesigned shuttel fuel tank
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NASA has reconfigured a space shuttle fuel tank to prevent the debris problem that doomed the shuttle Columbia and its seven astronauts from happening again, agency officials said on Tuesday.
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HOUSTON - NASA officials say they have completed the re-design of a tank used on the space shuttle that should prevent the falling debris problem that led to the destruction of the shuttle Columbia and its seven-member crew.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  - A redesigned space shuttle  fuel tank arrived at NASA's main assembly hangar on Thursday in  what managers said was a first tangible sign that the two-year  effort to return the fleet to flight following the Columbia  disaster is nearing its end.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  -- NASA resolved lingering concerns about lines connecting the external fuel tank to Atlantis on Wednesday and moved ahead with preparations for the first space shuttle launch of the year.
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NASA gave the green light Monday night for a Fourth of July shuttle liftoff despite worries about a piece of foam that popped off Discovery&#039;s external fuel tank while the spacecraft sat on the launch pad.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA fueled the space   shuttle Atlantis for launch from Florida on Friday but a   problem with a sensor in the spacecraft's external fuel tank   may prompt another delay, officials said.
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A fuel sensor that has given NASA headaches in the past acted up Friday morning as space shuttle Atlantis' crew prepared for liftoff.
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HOUSTON â Two shuttle astronauts swapped out a cooling system tank outside the International Space Station (ISS) in a Wednesday spacewalk, the first for German spaceflyer Hans Schlegel since an illness kept him from an earlier excursion.
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The U.S. space shuttle  Endeavour was rolled out of a hangar on Monday and taken to an  assembly building at the Kennedy Space Center to be fitted with  a fuel tank and booster rockets for a scheduled August 7  launch.
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NASA's thermal-imaging sensor helps fight the flames.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA engineers were troubleshooting a possible problem Wednesday with lines connecting the external fuel tank to space shuttle Atlantis, the only remaining concern about the first shuttle flight of the year.
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NASA found tiny cracks in the insulation on fuel tanks due to be installed on two space shuttles scheduled for missions this year, the US space agency said on Sunday.
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WASHINGTON NASA&#39;s ready to roll out an improved rocket fuel tank designed to prevent problems that helped destroy the space shuttle Columbia.
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NASA's redesigned space shuttle fuel tanks should no longer shed dangerous pieces of foam when launches resume next spring, officials said Thursday.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA scrubbed Friday's launch of the space shuttle Atlantis again, this time because of a problem that has bedeviled the space agency before: a faulty fuel tank sensor.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA was set on Tuesday   to make a third attempt to launch space shuttle Discovery on a   mission vital to the program's future after easing concerns   over a small crack in the ship's fuel tank.
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NASA unveils its newest supercomputer today during a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the agency&#39;s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.