Launch of Atlantis
 

NASA gives green light for Thursday Atlantis landing

    NEW YORK, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- Officials overseeing the Atlantis shuttle mission gave the go-ahead Wednesday for its planned landing on Thursday in Florida, according to NASA official website updates.

Atlantis astronauts complete inspections, prepare for landing

    WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- The astronauts wrapped up inspections of the Space Shuttle Atlantis' heat shield on Wednesday, and are preparing for its return to Earth, according to the NASA official website.

Mystery object delays space shuttle return

    BEIJING, Sept. 20 (Xinhuanet) -- A mystery object seen floating near the space shuttle Atlantis has forced NASA to delay the shuttle's return for an extra day while engineers try to determine possible damage to the spacecraft.

NASA delays Atlantis landing until Thursday

    WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- NASA delays space shuttle Atlantis' landing until Thursday, mainly due to bad weather at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, according to U.S. media reports on Monday.

Chemical leak on space station causes alarm

    BEIJING, Sept. 19 (Xinhuanet) -- A chemical leak of potassium hydroxide caused by overheating oxygen-generating unit on the international space station prompted the NASA briefly to declare Monday morning the first emergency ever aboard the 8-year-old station.

Atlantis undocks from Int'l Space Station

In this view from NASA TV, the space shuttle Atlantis is seen from a window of the International Space Station as it performs a 360-degree fly-around of the orbiting laboratory after undocking September 17, 2006. The black strips at the top and bottom of the image are due to the 16:9 aspect ratio of the hand-held high definition video cameras used to record the event from on board the station.Photo Gallery >>>

    WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. space shuttle Atlantis undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) at 8:50 a.m. EDT (1250 GMT)Sunday after astronauts had finished the installation of new solar panels to the orbiting outpost, NASA TV reported.  

Atlantis astronauts complete mission's final spacewalk

Two Atlantis astronauts successfully completed the mission's third and final spacewalk. (Xinhua/AFP Photo)Photo Gallery >>>

    WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- Two Atlantis astronauts successfully completed the mission's third and final spacewalk Friday morning, according to a report from NASA's mission control center.   

Atlantis astronauts finish second spacewalk

    WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) -- Two astronauts finished on Wednesday morning the second spacewalk of a shuttle mission critical to completion of the half-finished orbital outpost.  

Atlantis astronauts wraps up first spacewalk

Astronaut Joe Tanner works to make the P3/P4 truss operational during his extravehicular excursion from the International Space Station in this view from NASA TV, September 12, 2006.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)Photo Gallery >>>

    WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- Atlantis mission specialists Joe Tanner and Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper smoothly finished the first of three spacewalks Tuesday morning, preparing the new truss for operation, according to NASA TV. 

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