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Basically, the answer was that the space shuttle and space station are kept brightly lip (lit). So it is difficult to see a lot of stars.

The astronauts were in the space shuttle ready to go, but somebody saw one of their computers had a problem.

Certainly since the space shuttle began to fly, we've had people going up five, six, seven eight, nine times a year, " she says. "

basically the answer was that the space shuttle and the space station are kept brightly lit , so it is difficult to see a lot of stars.

YOUR correspondent, as regular readers of The Economist will be aware, has never been much of a fan of the Space Shuttle.

The U. S. space shuttle Endeavour arrives at the International Space Station and is ready to dock with it on Sunday.

Atlantis is centered over elements of the NASA emblem depicting how the space shuttle has been at the heart of NASA for the last 30 years.

A fleck of paint struck a space shuttle in 1983 and chipped the windshield, which had to be replaced at a cost of $50, 000.

The rules of engagement for the group phase of the competition read like the instruction manual for a space shuttle.

"Bad body odour will affect fellow colleagues in the narrow confines of a space shuttle, " he said.

"Atlantis" was conducted in June after the last flight, the United States nearly 30 years of space shuttle era will officially end.

The space shuttle, the workhorse of the space program, proved to be somewhat of a disappointment, with large cost overruns and long delays.

Tomorrow's world will be a strange tale is full of science fiction and fantasy to achieve a place in space shuttle.

NASA mechanics are trying to fix a problem with space shuttle Atlantis electricity system.

In a speech a year after the lethal explosion of the Space Shuttle Columbia, Bush promised a rededication to bold voyaging.

Naturally, what was important on a commercial airliner also could be enormously beneficial to the astronauts flying the space shuttle.

The space shuttle Atlantis is on its way home after working more than a week to improve the International Space Station.

One notable example of this was testing NASA's website used to stream video of the space shuttle launch.

The U. S. military's secret space plane, a robotic demonstrator version of a next-generation space shuttle, has been spotted by astronomers.

This new spacecraft is NASA's first step forward in its next great leap, as the U. S. space shuttle program heads into retirement.

It will improve our confidence in the assessment of potential damage, not just for the space shuttle but for any other future spacecraft.

The astronauts will return to Earth in a few days on space shuttle Endeavour's last voyage.

When Atlantis arrives back on earth it will mark the end of thirty years of the US space shuttle program.

Space shuttle Discovery's seven - member crew has wrap ped up an hours - long inspection to look for any signs of damage to its ship.

That day, the President had an interview with her father. Her father was going to the moon by space shuttle.

Space shuttle Discovery's seven-member crew has wrapped up an hours-long inspection to look for any signs of damage to its ship.

On the day of the announcement, NASA administrator James Fletcher, left, demonstrated a model of the Space Shuttle concept to the President.

NASA will assess the "Endeavour" space shuttle's launch preparations, and to determine the "Endeavour" was the final launch date.

can you say "space shuttle program" ? nice try. get off the boards once in a while you might learn something.

The largest single price increase takes effect later this summer, coinciding with the conclusion of the last space-shuttle mission.

Unique What makes the space shuttle is that it takes off like a rocket but lands like an airplane.

The space shuttle Endeavour blasted off into the bright morning sky as a cheer went up across the Kennedy Space Center.

Certainly since the space shuttle began to fly, we've had people going up 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 times a year.

Space Shuttle's reentry is one of the relatively complicated procedure of the entire flight procedure.

SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Shuttle Atlantis is days away from landing in the history books as the last space shuttle flight.

When the U. S. space shuttle completes its final flight, planned for June, mankind will take another step back from its top speed.

NASA is checking if the Space Shuttle Endeavor and its solid rocket boosters have been damaged by the lightning.

one space shuttle specialist in astronomy said "when the main engines cut off, I immediately felt as though we had inverted 180 degrees. "

Even so, Alexander decided to build its own a time machine to world proof - human can in time and space shuttle travel.

These condensation clouds are frequently seen during Space Shuttle launches but their precise nature is still under debate.

Standing on the grounds of Kennedy Space Center, facing the launch pad as a space shuttle lifts off, is an experience that defies words.

Previous space shuttle launches have also sometimes led to enhanced night-shining clouds due to the water vapor in the exhaust plumes.

The first flight of a space shuttle into orbit took place in 1981.

'After serving the world for over 30 years, the space shuttle has earned its place in history, and it's come to a final stop. '

Two of the brighter spacecraft in the present day sky are the International Space Station (ISS), and, when it is up, a NASA space shuttle.

In 1999, NASA sent ladybugs and aphids up in the space shuttle to test their movements in zero gravity.

In 2030, out of curiosity, I might even take a trip in a space shuttle and spend my vacation on another planet.

Sonic booms created by vehicles the size and mass of the space shuttle are very distinguishable and two distinct booms are easily heard.

When the U. S. space shuttle was still flying, the Johnson Space Center in Houston was a busy place.

One of the tasks of some space shuttle missions is to pick up satellites that aren't working and repair them or remove them.

A triptych toward the end of the show memorializes the space shuttle Colombia and its crew.

"It's a complex problem, " space shuttle program manager John Shannon said. "We really need to understand our risk. "

The next and last launch of a US space shuttle is scheduled for early July.

It is difficult to estimate the overall direct and indirect cost of the Space Shuttle program, but it must be well over $100B.

The American space shuttle Endeavour has lifted off for the International Space Station on its final mission.

It also pays tribute to the entire NASA and contractor team that made possible all the incredible accomplishments of the space shuttle.

One of the most beautiful photos I've seen of a space shuttle launch.

An alternative to the space shuttle was the original space plane of the Eisenhower era.

Britain, the United States, Germany, and Japan are already at work developing a new generation of space shuttle -- the spaceplane.

Choking back a tear, NASA has announced the dates of the final missions to be made by the Space Shuttle.

For one thing, it will roar off the pad a bit faster than a space shuttle, Ess said.

The Space Shuttle was expected to provide inexpensive and reliable access to space for a multitude of missions.

But further along on the horizon, Orbital is working on a crewed spaceplane about one quarter the size of the space shuttle.

The space shuttle Discovery is set to land for the last time Wednesday at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

He was speaking of the space shuttle, an old but arguably serviceable spacecraft.

Small the design to a switch, arrive greatly the research of space shuttle, can appear the form with electrician Cheng graduate major.

Helium is used for arc welding and leak detection, mostly, although NASA uses it to pressurize space shuttle fuel tanks.

The technical and economic analyses show that China should not develop the space shuttle as the manned spacecraft.

The U. S. workforce could shrink further if NASA follows through on plans to retire the space shuttle next year .

The space shuttle undertook a topsecret mission with a military payload under Pentagon control .

For America's current manned system, the government-owned space-shuttle fleet, is about to be withdrawn from service.

The space shuttle is a flying truck: fine for the lunch-bucket work of hauling cargo a couple of hundred miles into space, but nothing more.

But you have left me, that Lane, like the first time a space shuttle parked containing you leave this world.

Space shuttle fabricated in denim using counter gravity, makes space travel in style and possible for you.

The space shuttle Atlantis will remain here at the Kennedy Space Center, where it will eventually go on public display.

It was put in place to help protect the space shuttle from bird strike damage.

More recently, a small bat seemingly tried to stow away on the space shuttle Discovery when it launched into space last March.

The space shuttle Endeavour has undocked from the International Space Station and is headed back to Earth.

Explanation: Two days ago, powerful yet controlled explosions rocketed the Space Shuttle Endeavor on its final trip into Earth orbit.

JETFIRE adopted the form of earth's most advanced and adventurous craft - the Space Shuttle.

While the United States is still working out its next move after the space shuttle program, China is forging ahead.

However, the space shuttle paradigm is only one model of space access.

Coincidentally, the last time a bat perched itself on a space shuttle tank, right before liftoff, was Wakata's first flight in 1996.

Over the years, Earth Observatory has featured many images, data sets, and human insights from the Space Shuttle program.

My husband, Rick, was the commander of the space shuttle Columbia.

Among the people with the strongest opinions are hundreds of NASA employees who are losing their jobs as the space shuttle program ends.

Space shuttle Endeavour returns to its home base two weeks after landing back on earth.

The idea for the chemical engine is similar to that used on the space shuttle, liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen.

The first part of the system, the Oxygen Generation System, was launched on space shuttle Discovery in July 2006.

That will be an important milestone, particularly given the recent retirement of the Space Shuttle.

NASA officials report only a few problems during this morning's space shuttle Discovery launch.

Space Shuttle Atlantis hangs suspended from a sling inside the vehicle assembly building at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

The American space shuttle Endeavor is due to launch shortly after being delayed three times.

Space shuttle Discovery has launched on a mission to deliver new science equipment to the International Space Station.

Making exceptions is like taking a space shuttle back to Earth; you need another enormous amount of power to lift it off again.

Sorry I'm late. I'm working on a project that may take me up on the next space shuttle.

Four times astronauts have had to walk outside the space shuttle to repair the Hubble telescope, the last time in 2009.

Space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to launch in late August carrying a solar array, batteries and a truss segment of the station.

The next and final launch of the space shuttle Atlantis is set for July.

"We're going to step back and figure out what the problem is, and then we'll fly, " said LeRoy Cain, deputy space shuttle program manager.

In the upper-left, is the tail of the Space Shuttle Discovery, which docked with the Space Station during the STS-131 mission.

When Endeavour returns to Earth, it will be sent to a museum in California, leaving only one working space shuttle.

Evolved design The SLS will borrow many technologies developed for the recently retired space shuttle programme.

NASA managers say the space shuttle is in good shape but rain may move into the area around launch time.

In a few weeks' time, it will be moved to the Space Shuttle, ready for its last mission.

Who was the engineer who blew the whistle on the Challenger space shuttle's O-ring problem?

Such efforts may attract little attention compared with the launch of the space shuttle Endeavour this week.

The Space Shuttle Columbia was the first space worthy shuttle in NASA ' s orbital fleet.

Apollo used fuel cell technology (as does the space shuttle ), which requires oxygen and hydrogen be carried along for the ride.

Last month, the Space Shuttle orbiter Atlantis visited the ISS and added components that included the Columbus Science Laboratory.

The shuttle then hitches a ride back to Florida on one of two commercial Boeing 747 airplanes modified for space shuttle piggybacking.

The first fuel cells were made in the 19th century, and they've long been used to generate power in remote areas and on the space shuttle.

NASA also uses them as chase planes for the space shuttle orbiter as well as for astronaut training.

That's the best thing since the invention of space shuttle.

The U. S. space shuttle Discovery has landed safely at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida after a 13-day mission.

In effect, therefore, NASA has decided that the successor to the space shuttle will be commercial rockets and spacecraft.

Case in point: Space shuttle Discovery, as it nears retirement, wears its age with pride.

It was quiet morning at morning at stardust space Station. Captain Stella was checking the space shuttle.

Because there are security risks, coupled with the costs too high, the U. S. space shuttle be retired this year.

Recent news columns have commemorated the retirement of the Space Shuttle orbiter Discovery.

NASA's Space Shuttle Program conducted the final test firing of a reusable solid rocket motor Feb. 25 in Promontory, Utah.

AZUZ: The second time was the charm for NASA as the space shuttle Endeavour took off early Monday morning.

Its supporters have justified the space station as a terminal for the space shuttle.

The space shuttle Atlantis lifts off for the last time Friday, May 14, 2010, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Others have proposed designing new crew vehicles that will work with existing lift components from the space shuttle.

In brief, Mr Obama has confirmed that the Space Shuttle fleet will retire this winter, on the eve of its 30th birthday.

It was the first time an interplanetary probe was launched from a space shuttle.

In 1990 Space Shuttle Discovery launched the Hubble Space Telescope which ushered in a new era of space imaging and astronomical research.

Meteorologists expect fine weather this afternoon for the launch of space shuttle Discovery.

The space shuttle Atlantis has landed at California's Edwards Air Force Base after a two-week mission to the International Space Station.

After two failed launch attempts, the space shuttle Discovery roared into outer space on Independence Day afternoon.

The Mars Observer is to be deployed from an America space shuttle .

The space shuttle landed safely at Kennedy Space Center in Florida the last hour.

NASA delayed a Tuesday morning liftoff of the space shuttle Discovery by a day because of stormy weather at the Florida launch site.

"Lofty aspiration" and "ambitious" is not vague and is not for you to open the space shuttle, built the satellite.

Like a space shuttle, DeVry could transport "men who want to get somewhere and be somebody" to exciting new worlds.

It shows flames pouring from boosters attached to what is clearly America's very own Space Shuttle.

LAST week all eyes were on the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, as NASA's space shuttle blasted off on its final mission (see article).

Earth and its Moon are nicely framed in this image taken from the aft windows of the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1998.

It's a small fold in thermal insulation on the space shuttle Atlantis. Cameras spotting it during a post-launch inspection.

How is the space shuttle better than rockets or spaceships?

FEW scientists believe that the space shuttle has helped their profession.

In 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia was damaged by a dislodged piece of insulation.

"Atlantis" No. 8 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the U. S. space shuttle project implementation 135th and final flight.

The countdown has started for the final launch of an American space shuttle.

The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives.

The space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on its last mission.

The space shuttle Columbia blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla. , on its first test flight.

In the land of rock and roll, the space shuttle, and computerized living.

The space walk is one of three that astronauts from the space shuttle Discovery are conducting during their 13-day mission to the station.

Alloy 2219 is very easily weldable and has been extensively welded in fabricating the external tanks for the U. S. space shuttle.

Space shuttle Discovery performed a slow back flip and then docked at the International Space Station.

Tonight's rescheduled launch of the space shuttle Discovery has been delayed yet again, this time because of a hydrogen leak.

It has been more than 30 years since NASA launched something other than a space shuttle to test a manned spaceflight system.

Photographers gather at sunrise to take pictures of the space shuttle Endeavorin Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Seventy-three-year-old George McNeilon selected his food in Value Mart more carefully than NASA chose its candidates for the space shuttle.

Learning to pilot the space shuttle was in many ways the centerpiece of past astronauts' training.

The space shuttle was expected to make civilian manned spaceflight cheap and routine.

However, the latest sign of the "2010 NASA Authorization Act, " requires one additional space shuttle mission.

We all like to see the space shuttle arrive.

The Russians haven't crowed over the demise of the space shuttle.

Wiry and intense, Cabana seems surprised, and maybe insulted, when asked to explain the Space Shuttle's value.

Space shuttle Discovery approaches the International Space Station during its 39th and final flight and docking operations in space.

Others are critical of NASA's plan to abandon the space shuttle next year to concentrate all efforts on the new program.

The US space agency Nasa has postponed the launch of the space shuttle Endeavour for a fifth time because of bad weather.

The Endeavour space shuttle is scheduled to collect Wakata and bring him back to earth in June.

And Enterprise is the first space shuttle to land on an aircraft carrier.

Comet and Spanner set off in the space shuttle to look for the new planet. Spanner was very excited.

The space shuttle Endeavour sits docked to the ISS in an astronaut photograph taken May 23.

Space shuttle Endeavour is set to launch on a mission to the International Space Station, after a series of weather delays.

The one thing I gotta say there ain't nobody here but us chicken. Another busy day today for the crew of Space Shuttle Discovery.

People must realize that you can't go from the ox wagon to the space shuttle in one step.

But the space shuttle has been justified as a vehicle to reach the space station, which is a completely circular and illogical argument.

The STS-106 crew on Space Shuttle Atlantis delivered supplies and performed maintenance on the International Space Station.

Scott will be in command when Mark docks aboard a supply mission on the Space Shuttle Endeavor.

Replacement parts are coming, on board the space shuttle Discovery, set to blast off Saturday.

The explosion of the space shuttle Challenger shocked the nation.

So the space shuttle will have done a good job.

The Space Shuttle Atlantis will not be coming home today.

Did you watch on TV the tragedy of Columbia Space Shuttle of the U. S.

In practice, however, the space-shuttle program was never routine, reliable or cheap.

The discovery of planets around distant stars has become like space-shuttle launches-newsworthy but just barely.

The last U. S. space shuttle is scheduled to blast off Friday.

On the Space Shuttle, food is prepared at a galley installed on the orbiter's mid-deck.

This was the 129th U. S. space shuttle flight, and the 31st to the space station.

This picture of course you recall from the space shuttle Challenger when it failed.

Space Shuttle Discovery is back on Earth, landing at Cape Canaveral in Florida after a 13-day mission to the International Space Station.

The mission is NASA's 132nd space shuttle flight since the fleet began launching into space in April 1981.

The Space Shuttle Endeavour returned to Earth last month.

The space shuttle Challenger exploded in a ball of fire. . .

The first of three spacewalks for astronauts aboard space shuttle Discovery is complete.

A future space shuttle mission might repair the Hubble instrument, Massey says.

" The picture shows the space shuttle Enterprise and the U. S. S. Enterprise, the spacecraft from the television show " Star Trek.

At minus six seconds on a bright and biting Florida morning, the space shuttle Challenger was poised on launch pad 39-B.

Lightning delays space shuttle Endeavour launch.

NASA has resumed the countdown for the launch of space shuttle Discovery.

This is nothing compared to the Space Shuttle explosions, or the Apollo accident where 4 american astronaut died.

Clouds ripple across the Indian Ocean in this photograph taken from the space shuttle Discoveryin 1999.

Space shuttle Discovery's tail fin clears the hangar door of Orbiter Processing Facility-2 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Photographers take images as the Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off May 14, 2010 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

It seemed that the space shuttle was about to reenter.

At Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, work begins to install the newly arrived space shuttle Atlantis on the pad.

NASA commentator Rob Navias announced the end of the mission and the space shuttle program.

Explanation: Space shuttle Endeavour is home to stay.

Then, in January 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded during takeoff, killing all seven people aboard.

A cloud forming over Asia is photographed as the space shuttle Atlantis orbits Earth on its 10th flight, in 1991.

The very last trip for any space shuttle is currently planned for mid-July whenAtlantis will also visit the space station.

Heat shields on the Space Shuttle are ceramic. So are artificial knee joints and hip joints.

The space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

The launch of the US space shuttle Endeavour has been postponed for a fourth time, because of thunder storms in the area.

Astronauts performing tasks abroad space shuttle get help from robot arm.

Space Shuttle Endeavour landed safely after a successful maiden voyage.

How fast does a balloon travel? How about an airplane? How about a space shuttle?

The first of NASA's Great Observatories, the Hubble Space Telescope was carried into orbit in 1990 by the space shuttle.

The STS-98 crew installed the new Destiny Laboratory Module after removing it from Space Shuttle Atlantis' payload bay.

The space shuttle Atlantis is on its way back to earth from the International Space Station on its last voyage after a 25-year career.

A tail of smoke chases the space shuttle Endeavour as it lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on March 11, 2008.

President Richard Nixon ordered development of the space shuttle.

President Richard Nixon commissioned the space shuttle program in 1972, three years after the Apollo program put a man on the moon.

The space shuttle Discovery's crew experienced a first on the shuttle's last full day in orbit.

A hot air balloon, shaped and sized to resemble the Space Shuttle, drifts over Ottawa.

Unless Mr Obama decides otherwise, the Space Shuttle will retire next year.

At this time, preparations for undocking of space shuttle Atlantis during its final mission, STS-132, were ongoing.

At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Discovery's STS-133 crew on the Shuttle Landing Facility runway.

But they would do a lot less harm to the stratosphere than Concorde or the space shuttle, devices that were accepted by most people.

The space shuttle Discovery launches and inside the same year, we saw the first ever flight in space by humans using flight packs.

1993 - Space Shuttle program: STS-61 - NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

The space shuttle warriors in writing them great achievement.

The February mission marks the end of NASA's Space Shuttle program.

Modifications and upgrades including the glass cockpit began on space shuttle Columbia in 2000.

Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-135 takes off near the Visitors Center at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida July 8, 2011.

Space shuttle Discovery first deployed Hubble into a 611-kilometer-high (380-mile-high) Earth orbit on April 25, 1990.

The U. S. space shuttle Endeavour docks with the International Space Station at 5: 01 p. m. EDT (2201 GMT) on Sunday.

The space shuttle Endeavour is due back at the Kennedy Space Center.

The flight will be "Discovery" space shuttle's curtain call performance.

Viewed from above, a backscatter device scans the space shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank on December 2.

Space shuttle Endeavour lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California, concluding the STS-126 mission.

NASA is working on a new rocket system derived from the space shuttle, but that will be ready only in 2017.

In 1989 the space shuttle Atlantis launches the Magellan Probe toward the Venus.

The space shuttle was a beautiful idea.

riding the space shuttle in low earth orbit ( with the windows shuttered ) , you don ' t have a clear idea of down.

The space shuttle could be used to build this system.

Staged combustion engines in service include the Russian RD-180, used on the Atlas V, and the Space Shuttle Main Engine.

The Space Shuttle Challenger was destroyed 73 seconds after takeoff due on January 28, 1986 due to a faulty O-ring.

On November 1st, President Obama met with the final space shuttle crew. And got himself a slick new jacket.

The space shuttle took five astronauts to the space station.

Space shuttle in orbit, the heater power device to prevent the joint subsidiary of frozen ammonia.

Another factor that could affect the future of US space flight is a possible delay in retiring the space shuttle.

It's a small fold in thermal insulation on the space shuttle Atlantis.

Space shuttle had bring plant seeds into the outer space.