At a press briefing December 6, NASA Space Shuttle program managers reported steady progress toward a return to flight. Before the end of December, they said, the space agency will submit to an ...

NASA is still struggling to develop a tool for inspecting the outside of the space shuttle and a repair kit for gashed wings — hurdles that could prolong the grounding of the fleet since the Columbia ...

With just three months remaining until liftoff, the astronauts assigned to the first space shuttle flight since the Columbia catastrophe still don't know what type of repair kit will accompany them ...

Nasa and Lego have created a detailed replica of the Space Shuttle Discovery and the Hubble Space Telescope that it helped launched. The kit is just the latest in a number of tie-ups and ...

When Discovery rockets into space this year on NASA's first shuttle flight in more than two years, the astronauts aboard will carry a bevy of tools and techniques to ensure their spacecraft is safe.

Lego is releasing an official International Space Station kit, which includes a scale model of the orbital platform, along with a miniature dockable Space Shuttle, a deployable satellite and two ...

In our third special preview of the upcoming space shuttle flight, New Scientist examines how astronauts will test techniques to repair the orbiter’s heat shield in space Following the Columbia ...

ASTRONAUTS aboard the space shuttle Discovery – which was being readied for its Wednesday launch as New Scientist went to press – will be testing five different “puncture repair kits” designed to ...

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HOUSTON — It was "3, 2, 1... build-off!" at LEGO stores nationwide on Tuesday night (Feb. 3), as the toy company gave away thousands of space shuttle construction kits. The latest of LEGO's free ...