NASA managers are likely to recommend a repair in space to the thermal protection blanket that was torn on space shuttle Atlantis during the STS-117 launch June 8. As Atlantis was closing in for a ...

Click to open image viewer. This is a sample thermal blanket like those covering most of the Space Shuttle fuselage, upper wings, and vertical tail. A standard blanket is a square, but this is one of ...

Jean Wright's work as a seamstress wasn't typical: this "Sew Sister" had a mission of keeping NASA's Space Shuttle and its astronauts safe. She sewed with materials that could withstand up to 3,200 ...

HOUSTON — Astronauts will try to fix a thermal blanket that peeled back during Atlantis' launch, extending the space shuttle's mission from 11 to 13 days, NASA managers said Monday. No decision had ...

The images were dramatic, but in the end, performing the first-ever spacewalk repair of a shuttle's heat shield proved a simple task. At 7:45 a.m. astronaut Steve Robinson plucked the first piece of ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - The U.S. space shuttle Atlantis was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on Monday on a 11-day mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. Here are some ...

Even in retirement, the space shuttle Discovery exudes power, seen across a hangar crowded with planes and jets at its museum home in Chantilly, Va. Charred and worn from its record 39 missions to ...

Click to open image viewer. This is a sample thermal blanket like those covering most of the Space Shuttle fuselage, upper wings, and vertical tail. Quilted blankets replaced most of the white tiles ...