Science news articles about 'crew time'

... is the only western vehicle able to refuel another spacecraft in complement to the Russian Progress. The successful automation of this function frees significant crew time for other ISS operations."

NASA has added a day to the space shuttle Endeavour's mission to the International Space Station, delaying its departure until Friday to give the crew time to fix a urine and sweat recycling system.

The space shuttle Atlantis blasted off for one last flight to the Hubble Space Telescope, an extraordinarily ambitious repair mission that NASA hopes will lift the celebrated observatory to new ...