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...shuttles, meantime, which have already claimed the lives of 14 astronauts, continue to accumulate wear as they limp toward the 2010 deadline when the station is set to be completed and they'll be allowed to retire. In the next several days, Atlantis astronauts will undertake a risky spacewalk to repair a thermal blanket that pulled up from a small section of one of the shuttle's engines - possibly exposing it to damage during reentry. Their first-line tools for this important work? Staples scrounged from the shuttle's medical kit. If ever a pair of government programs cried...
...Hubble camera used to capture images of the deepest cosmos is likely lost after a malfunction last week. But a new camera set to be installed during an '08 spacewalk should restore some capabilities...
...million Cost of the solar array that NASA astronauts installed on the International Space Station last week during a 61/2-hr. spacewalk...
...Columbia accident made us realize that we had been playing Russian roulette with the shuttle crews." N. WAYNE HALE, deputy manager of nasa's space-shuttle program, on last week's never-before-attempted spacewalk to repair the shuttle Discovery's underside...
STEPHEN ROBINSON, astronaut who, in a stunningly simple spacewalk repair job, used his fingers to pluck two pieces of cloth filler dangling from the space shuttle; NASA feared the loose bits would compromise the shuttle's heat shields upon re-entry...