Science news articles about 'atlantis mission'

HOUSTON, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- U.S. space officials moved the target launch date for the Shuttle Atlantis mission to the Hubble Space Telescope back two days to Oct. 10.

American space agency NASA is using the shuttle Endeavour to back up its sister ship, Atlantis, which is due to lift off next month to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency has set May 12 as the target launch date for space shuttle Atlantis' mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

For the first time, astronauts will be opening instruments and replacing circuit boards in space.

Two astronauts plan to step out of the International Space Station Thursday on the first of three spacewalks during their docked space shuttle Atlantis mission.

Astronauts from the space shuttle Atlantis have begun their second of three scheduled spacewalks.

Tasks in Final EVA of Atlantis Mission Will Include Replacing Solar Array's Oldest Set of Batteries

The US space agency said Friday it is targeting July 8 for the last-ever launch of the American shuttle program, with an Atlantis mission to the International Space Station.

... attenuated Salmonella vaccine, or RASV, will be the focus of the Atlantis mission. Current experiments aboard STS ... vaccines. The current experiments planned for Atlantis' final mission represent an interesting twist in Nickerson ...

The crew of space shuttle Atlantis mission STS-135 visited New York City for interviews and live appearances on August 16, 2011.