New NASA Fuel Tank Heads to Space Center
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NASA's redesigned fuel tank, a massive vessel that supplies propellant for the launch of the space shuttle, began its five-day trip across the Gulf of Mexico to the launch site on Florida's east coast.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle Discovery raced toward a rendezvous with the international space station Monday, ready to deliver a new crew member and a 2-ton addition to the space lab.
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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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It may seem, from a distance, just one small step. But in a few months, it should prove to have been a giant leap. NASA plans today to roll out from an assembly facility near New Orleans a redesigned fuel
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A redesigned fuel tank for NASA's first post-Columbia launch emerged from a darkened barge into the morning sunlight Thursday, inspiring dozens of space shuttle workers who gathered to watch.
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NASA has finished building a redesigned space shuttle fuel tank that was reconfigured to eliminate the debris problem that doomed the shuttle Columbia and its seven astronauts, agency officials said on Tuesday.
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A team of engineers is taking a meticulous look at the hail-damaged fuel tank of NASA's shuttle Atlantis to determine how best to repair its weather-beaten surface for a planned April launch to the International Space Station (ISS).
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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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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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A new inflatable, unmanned test module for a proposed private space station was launched into orbit Thursday aboard a Russian rocket, the U.S. company developing the technology said.
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NASA engineers have attached the shuttle Atlantis to its immense external fuel tank and twin rocket boosters, bringing the spacecraft one step closer to a March launch towards the International Space Station (ISS).
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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&#39;s Michoud plant in eastern New Orleans will slowly resume construction of external fuel tanks for the space shuttle in the new year, a plant executive said Tuesday, marking the first time
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By Mike Schneider Associated Press  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Discovery raced toward a rendezvous with the international space station Monday, ready to deliver a new crew member and a 2-ton addition to the space lab.
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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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NASA began installing a new connector in the space shuttle Atlantisâs fuel tank in hopes of launching the craft in early February.
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Following more than 18-months of redesign work, the next external tank that will fuel a NASA space shuttle as it is launched into orbit is about ready for delivery, NASA officials said today.