All seven members of the STS-114 crew were busy at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida Feb. 10 and 11, further familiarizing themselves with the spacecraft that will take them on the Space ...

What: Commander Eileen Collins and other crew members of the historic space shuttle Discovery’s STS-114 mission will visit NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., Wednesday, Nov. 9.

The STS-114 astronauts are conducting more inspections of Space Shuttle Discovery’s heat shield this morning. They are using the Orbiter Boom Sensor System attached to the Shuttle’s robot arm to take ...

The shuttle Discovery's crew has lingering doubts about the on-orbit thermal protection system (TPS) repair techniques that NASA is developing in the wake of the Columbia accident, and would not be ...

(NASA) July 13, 2005 - Commander Eileen Collins is a veteran of three space flights and a second-time Commander who has overall responsibility for the on-orbit execution of the mission, Orbiter ...

Assignment will see two veterans and one rookie join team that was scheduled to fly on original STS 114 mission The STS 114 Space Shuttle return to flight mission scheduled for late 2004 or early 2005 ...

There is no shortage of experience at the helm of NASA’s next space shuttle mission. With a total of four shuttle flights and 844 hours of space time between them, STS-114 commander Eileen Collins and ...

Although NASA officials hope for a smooth flight of the space shuttle Discovery when it launches later this year, mission managers are still planning for the worst-case scenario. A contingency plan ...

Soichi Noguchi is a Japanese astronaut and engineer with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). His first spaceflight took him to the International Space Station in July 2005 on Discovery's ...

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