NASA resolved problems of the lines connecting external fuel tank to Atlantis on Wednesday. Now the first space shuttle is getting ready for the launch on Friday at 6:38 p.m. CDT. Forecasters predicted 70 percent probability of good weather.
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Indian American astronaut Sunita Williams has assembled a spacewalk tool that may help her two companions in space in retracting a solar array during their two spacewalks on 30th May and 6th June.
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Wally Schirra, one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts died in hospital in La Jolla. Wally Schirra was the fifth American in space and the third American to orbit the earth. He died in 84.
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Space suits for astronauts may get a new and better design following a University of Houston doctoral student's locomotion stability research. Melissa Scott-Pandorf is a Fellow of the Texas Space Grant Consortium.
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South Korea has almost finished selecting the country's first astronaut, whose work is to make scientific strides aboard the International Space Station. The country's leadership is also presenting the planned mission as a rallying call for national pride. VOA's Kurt Achin reports from Seoul.
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Astronaut Piers Sellers - only the third Briton to go into space - will talk about his experiences on board the Space Shuttle Discovery when he visits the University of Edinburgh with his fellow astronauts.
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