HOUSTON - NASA is more confident in itsability to make minor in-flight repairs to a shuttle's heat shield after asuccessful test during a Wednesdayspacewalk outside the Discovery orbiter, according to ...

Designing and testing such a repair kit is a key part of NASA's efforts to return the space shuttle to orbit in the wake of the Feb. 1 accident that destroyed Columbia and killed seven astronauts. The ...

A pair of astronauts ended a spacewalk early on Friday in which they tested a repair procedure for the heat shields on the space shuttle fleet – a technique NASA hopes it never needs to use. “I think ...

Two spacewalking astronauts, working outside the international space station late Thursday, wrapped up tests with a gooey repair material for damaged shuttle heat shielding that NASA hopes it never ...

NASA announced April 17 it has pulled a spacewalk dedicated to heat shield repair techniques from the schedule of its next space shuttle flight to make way for additional inspections to be conducted ...

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are preparing for a spacewalk on Thursday to test a heat shield repair technique and replace a failed circuit breaker. It will be the fourth of five ...