Space debris hit shuttle during last mission-NASA
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A piece of space debris  punched a small hole in one of space shuttle Atlantis' radiator  panels during its recent 12-day spaceflight, NASA said on  Thursday.
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NASA has targeted Sept. 10, 2008 for the launch of the fifth and final space shuttle servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
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The shuttle Atlantis astronauts   completed their work on the International Space Station on   Friday with a third and final spacewalk to put the finishing   touches on a new power module and set up gear for NASA's next   service call.
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NASA has refitted a space shuttle fuel tank to decrease the likelihood of the debris problem that doomed the shuttle Columbia and its seven astronauts from happening again, agency officials said on Tuesday.
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NASA scientists readied space shuttle Atlantis for a piggy-backed ride atop a Boeing 747 airplane this week to the Kennedy Space Center. That journey will cap shuttle's STS-117 mission that officially ended Friday when it landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER HOUSTON - Hours after undocking from the international space station Tuesday, Atlantis' seven astronauts began a final inspection of the space shuttle to make sure its heat shield was ready to re-enter Earth's atmosphere.
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By SETH BORENSTEIN  HOUSTON - NASA gave space shuttle Atlantis the all-clear to come home Thursday after a stem-to-stern inspection prompted by a mysterious flurry of orbital litter found no damage to the ship.
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HOUSTON -- Seven NASA astronauts will bid farewell to the International Space Station (ISS) Tuesday when their shuttle Atlantis undocks after a busy construction mission.
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By SETH BORENSTEIN HOUSTON - Shuttle astronauts spotted three more pieces of debris floating in space outside Atlantis early Wednesday, but officials said it didn't seem their appearance would prevent a landing attempt Thursday.
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Hail has damaged the external fuel tank of the Space Shuttle Atlantis, leaving the status of the planned March 15 launch unclear, a US space agency spokeswoman said Tuesday.
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Atlantis cleared for landing Mystery pieces of space debris which had shuttle mission controllers worried will not prevent a landing attempt Thursday, NASA said today.â¦
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NASA will take a key step to returning astronauts to space when engineers ship a fuel tank that has been refitted. All this too decrease the likelihood of falling debris that caused the destruction of the space shuttle Columbia, officials said Tuesday.
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Astronauts put the final touches on a  new solar power unit for the International Space Station on  Sunday in their last spacewalk before the scheduled departure  of the shuttle Atlantis on Tuesday.
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There are literally tons of man-made debris orbiting the Earth, from rocket parts to dead satellites to human waste dumped by space station crews. Then there's the stuff that spacewalking astronauts have simply lost out there.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - Space shuttle astronauts left their ship for a fourth spacewalk on Monday in a last-ditch effort to free a jammed solar wing panel on the International Space Station and complete every job NASA wanted for its final flight of the year.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - Crews aboard the space shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station revived the third and final part of the station's prime computer network on Saturday and scoured the complex for the cause of the crash.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA cleared space   shuttle Atlantis to return to Earth on Thursday, confident that   unidentified objects spotted floating near the spaceship did   not result from damage to its heat shield or other critical   equipment.