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NASA'S Shuttle Crew Returns Home After Successful Mission

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Space shuttle Endeavour and its crew landed at 8:39 p.m. EDT Wednesday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., after completing a 16-day journey of nearly 6.6 million miles in space. The first landing attempt at Kennedy was bypassed due to low clouds in the area. Endeavour's flight was the longest shuttle mission to the International Space Station and included a record five spacewalks. The shuttle's seven astronauts worked with the three-member station crew and ground teams around the world to install the first section of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo laboratory and the Canadian Space Agency's two-armed robotic system, known as Dextre. "The success of this mission makes the International Space Station truly international," said NASA Associate Administrator for Space Operations B

NASA'S Shuttle Crew Returns Home After Successful Mission

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Space shuttle Endeavour and its crew landed at 8:39 p.m. EDT Wednesday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., after completing a 16-day journey of nearly 6.6 million miles in space. The first landing attempt at Kennedy was bypassed due to low clouds in the area. Endeavour's flight was the longest shuttle mission to the International Space Station and included a record five spacewalks. The shuttle's seven astronauts worked with the three-member station crew and ground teams around the world to install the first section of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo laboratory and the Canadian Space Agency's two-armed robotic system, known as Dextre. "The success of this mission makes the International Space Station truly international," said NASA Associate Administrator for Space Operations B

NASA'S Shuttle Crew Returns Home After Successful Mission

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Space shuttle Endeavour and its crew landed at 8:39 p.m. EDT Wednesday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., after completing a 16-day journey of nearly 6.6 million miles in space. The first landing attempt at Kennedy was bypassed due to low clouds in the area.

NASA'S Shuttle Crew Returns Home After Successful Mission

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Space shuttle Endeavour and its crew landed at 8:39 p.m. EDT Wednesday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., after completing a 16-day journey of nearly 6.6 million miles in space. The first landing attempt at Kennedy was bypassed due to low clouds in the area.

NASA'S Shuttle Crew Returns Home After Successful Mission

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Space shuttle Endeavour and its crew landed at 8:39 p.m. EDT Wednesday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., after completing a 16-day journey of nearly 6.6 million miles in space. The first landing attempt at Kennedy was bypassed due to low clouds in the area.

NASA Announces Space Shuttle Pre-Launch and Mission Web Coverage

A pre-launch webcast, live blogs, podcasts, pictures and videos will highlight NASA's Web coverage of space shuttle Endeavour's STS-123 mission to the International Space Station. NASA will provide continuous online updates at: www.nasa.gov/shuttle A live webcast featuring Canadian Space Agency astronaut Julie Payette will start the in-depth online coverage of the mission at 11:30 a.m. EDT on March 10. Payette, who flew on STS-96, is scheduled to fly on the STS-127 mission in 2009. A blog will update the countdown beginning about six hours before Endeavour is scheduled to lift off on March 11 at 2:28 a.m. Originating from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the blog is the definitive Internet source for information leading up to launch. The 16-day mission will allow Endeavour's crew to add science capabilities to the space station plus deliver e

NASA Sets Briefings to Preview Next Space Shuttle Mission

NASA will hold a series of news media briefings May 1 to discuss the upcoming space shuttle Discovery mission, STS-124. NASA Television and the agency's Web site will provide live coverage of the briefings from the Johnson Space Center, beginning at 8 a.m. CDT. Questions also will be taken from participating NASA locations. Discovery's 13-day mission is targeted for launch to the International Space Station on May 31. It is the second of three flights to launch components of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo laboratory. The shuttle also will deliver the lab's robotic arm system that will support operations outside of Kibo. Following the briefings, members of the STS-124 crew will be available for a series of round-robin interviews.

NASA's Shuttle Crew Returns Home After Successful Mission

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Shuttle Mission in Good Shape After Launch, NASA Says

HOUSTON — Less than 24 hours after space shuttle Endeavour's successful launch set a predawn Florida sky ablaze, NASA said the mission is going well despite two glitches and a strange object spotted in launch video.

The seven-astronaut crew of NASA's shuttle Endeavour is gearing up for the longest construction mission ever aimed at the international space station, where space fliers will add a Japanese-built room and a Canadian robot to the growing orbiting labo

Before the simulated launch countdown in space shuttle Endeavour, the crew gathers on NASA Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39A. Seen from the left are mission specialists Rick Linnehan and Robert L. Behnken; pilot Gregory H. Johnson; commander Dominic Gorie; and mission specialists Mike Foreman, Garrett Reisman and Takao Doi.

More than 8,000 NASA contractor jobs in the nation's manned space program could be eliminated after the space shuttle program is shut down in 2010, the agency said Tuesday.

Shuttle commander Mark Kelly checks the area around the window in the cockpit of the space shuttle Discovery during a crew check at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in February. NASA's shuttle fleet is due to be retired in 2010.

After clouds thwarted NASA's first effort to bring the Endeavour and its crew of seven back to Earth, the space shuttle made a rare nighttime landing about an hour later when the sky cleared.

After clouds thwarted NASA's first effort to bring the Endeavour and its crew of seven back to Earth, the space shuttle made a rare nighttime landing about an later when the sky cleared.

NASA Jubilant Over Super-Successful Endeavour Mission

From its nighttime blastoff to its after-sunset touchdown, the space shuttle Endeavour's record-setting mission to the international space station seemed to proceed without a hitch. "I can't imagine that the mission could have gone any better, and [the astronauts] made it look easy," said NASA Administrator Michael Griffin.

NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour Set to Land Wednesday

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The space shuttle Endeavour crew is expected to complete its 16-day flight to the International Space Station with a landing at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, March 26. The STS-123 mission began March 11 and delivered the first segment of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo laboratory and the Canadian Space Agency's two-armed robotic system, known as Dextre. The flight also brought a new crew member to the station and will return an astronaut who has spent nearly seven weeks aboard the complex. NASA managers will evaluate weather conditions at Kennedy before permitting Endeavour to return to Earth. Wednesday landing opportunities at Kennedy are at 7:05 p.m. EDT and 8:39 p.

NASA Sets Briefing for April Space Station Crew Change

HOUSTON, March 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA will hold a briefing at 1 p.m. CDT Wednesday, April 2, to preview the activities of the next residents of the International Space Station and to look back at the accomplishments of the current station crew. The briefing will originate from NASA's Johnson Space Center and will be broadcast live on NASA Television. Questions will be taken from reporters at participating NASA locations. Conducted on the eve of the docking of the Jules Verne European Automated Transfer Vehicle to the station, the briefing will focus on the upcoming Expedition 17 mission. Expedition 17 Commander Sergei Volkov and Flight Engineer Oleg Kononenko, along with South Korean Spaceflight Participant So-yeon Yi, will launch April 8 on a Soyuz spacecraft from Kazakhstan.

NASA Moves Endeavour, Space Station Crew News Conference

HOUSTON, March 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The news conference with the 10 crew members aboard space shuttle Endeavour and the International Space Station, originally scheduled for 11:18 p.m. CDTSunday, March 23, has been moved to an hour earlier, and will begin at 10:18 p.m. The change in time was made to improve the downlink television capability from the space station. Media may ask questions from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston; NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida; and NASA Headquarters in Washington. The phone bridge used for after business hours briefings will not be available. A portion of the news conference will be set aside for Japanese reporters at the Johnson Space Center and a French radio network selected by the European Space Agency.

NASA Moves Endeavour, Space Station Crew News Conference

HOUSTON, March 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The news conference with the 10 crew members aboard space shuttle Endeavour and the International Space Station, originally scheduled for 11:18 p.m. CDT Sunday, March 23, has been moved to an hour earlier, and will begin at 10:18 p.m. The change in time was made to improve the downlink television capability from the space station. Media may ask questions from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston; NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida; and NASA Headquarters in Washington. The phone bridge used for after business hours briefings will not be available. A portion of the news conference will be set aside for Japanese reporters at the Johnson Space Center and a French radio network selected by the European Space Agency.

Review of NASA's Exploration Technology Development Program: An Interim Report

NASA requested that a committee under the auspices of the National Research Council's Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board carry out an assessment of NASA's Exploration Technology Development Program (ETDP). Organizationally, this program functions under the direction of NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate and is charged with developing new technologies that will enable NASA to conduct future human and robotic exploration missions, while reducing mission risk and cost. The Committee to Review NASA'S Exploration Technology Development Program has been tasked to examine how well the program is aligned with the stated objectives of the President's Vision for Space Exploration (VSE), to identify gaps in the program, and to assess the quality of the research.

Amazing pictures as shuttle makes return to Earth after record 16-day mission to space station

The space shuttle Endeavour and its crew of seven have returned to Earth after a record 16-day mission that delivered part of a Japanese lab and a Canadian robot to the International Space Station.

Astronauts ready spaceship for ride home, successful mission nearly over

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Their successful mission nearly over, shuttle Endeavour's astronauts are getting ready for the ride home.

Astronauts ready spaceship for ride home, successful mission nearly over

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Their successful mission nearly over, shuttle Endeavour's astronauts are getting ready for the ride home.

Astronauts ready spaceship for ride home, successful mission nearly over

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Their successful mission nearly over, shuttle Endeavour's astronauts are getting ready for the ride home.

Astronauts ready spaceship for ride home, successful mission nearly over

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: Their incredibly successful mission nearly over, shuttle Endeavour's astronauts readied their spaceship for Wednesday evening's ride home.

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