NASA discovered that space shuttle Atlantis has been holed by a tiny piece of space debris. The 1/10-inch hole represents the second largest debris damage event ever identified. Fortunately, it missed everything that was important to the mission. Space debris is an increasingly challenging problem. picked by Fanatic 3 years ago

A patched-up Atlantis blasted off with seven astronauts Friday on the first space shuttle flight of 2007.

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"I will never forget, we hung the (robot) arm over the right wing, we panned it to the (damage) location and took a look and I said to myself, 'we are going to die,'" recalled shuttle commander Robert "Hoot" Gibson. picked by tigertony 8 months ago

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - NASA delayed its first space shuttle launch of the year for a fourth time on Friday after failing to resolve concerns about a potential problem with fuel pressurization valves. picked by iamamaniac 9 months ago

Space Shuttle Atlantis has blasted off to take astronauts to fix Hubble.

Article has a lot of very interesting info about the mission, not just the shuttle launch. Related picked by Ankabout 7 months ago

The space shuttle Atlantis has its Wednesday landing delayed after an unidentified object is seen floating near the vehicle. picked by jaxomlotus 3 years ago

This is Atlantis signing off... picked by mrnelson 3 years ago

NASA moved space shuttle Endeavour a step closer to liftoff without an essential part: the "u." picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Catching a free ride to Mars takes more than sticking out a thumb, but some hardy Earth bacteria could survive as hitchhikers clinging to the outside of spacecraft, studies have shown. Now a set of experiments going up with space shuttle Atlantis to the International Space Station will test how exposure to the harshness of space might change bacteria during a simulated Mars mission. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

As NASA prepares for its final service call to the Hubble Space Telescope, it's also preparing for something never attempted in the history of the shuttle program: a rescue operation so dramatic that Hollywood would be hard-pressed to come up with a more outlandish plot. picked by kakana 7 months ago

Many of us have seen images of the Space Shuttle launching as taken from the ground. picked by 2manyusernames 3 years ago

A small bat appears to be trying to hitch a ride aboard the space shuttle Discovery from its perch on the spacecraft's attached external tank as NASA counts down to a planned Sunday evening launch. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

One of two spiders sent to the orbiting laboratory aboard the space shuttle Endeavour last week was added to the lost property list after the crew checked its tank and found it empty. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Dozens of Twitter members started tweeting their Space Shuttle photos. I learned it will be impossible for me to re-tweet them all. So I collected a bunch of photos from different Twitter members. Enjoy! picked by molnatisi 9 months ago

A space program worker deliberately damaged a computer that is supposed to fly aboard shuttle Endeavour in less than two weeks, an act of sabotage that picked by Bornbad 2 years ago

Due to a technical problem, NASA has pushed off the launch of Atlantis. It has been postponed for the past 12 days. If they can't get this shuttle launched they will attempt to launch during the day. picked by musicgirldani 3 years ago

The Space Shuttle is an amazing engineering accomplishment. It is also an incredible programming accomplishment. The software never crashes. It is bug-free. It is perfect, as perfect as human beings have achieved. The last three versions of the program -- each 420,000 lines long-had just one error each. Commercial programs of equivalent complexity would have 5,000 errors picked by bernardblack 7 months ago

20th November 1998 saw the deployment of the first part of the International Space Station. 10 years on, it is still not finished, the merits of the science it embodies are in question and today it transpires they've recently lost a spider and a tool bag.

But happy birthday, anyway. picked by pocksucket 1 year ago

Two famous basketballs are making the trip with Space Shuttle Atlantis on it's Hubble repair mission. One of the balls belongs to the Globetrotters. The other is a century-old ball on loan from the University of Chicago that was once handled by Edwin Hubble himself. picked by equinox 7 months ago

A blog post suggests that Hubble could be kept in a high-orbit 'museum' rather than being made to crash into the Earth's atmosphere. picked by sparky 3 years ago