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• NASA Finds Sensor Problem But Atlantis Launch Date No Closer

  NASA troubleshooters determined on Tuesday that the problem that delayed space shuttle Atlantis’ launch by at least a month is not caused by defective fuel sensors as originally suspected, but by a bad connector that links wires from the sensors inside the shuttle's fuel tank to the outside. The findings were the result of a long test that monitored the sensors as the shuttle’s giant orange external tank was filled with 500.

• NASA Unlikely to Launch Shuttle Atlantis on January 10

  While NASA engineers are still unsure when it will be safe to launch space shuttle Atlantis on its long-awaited mission to the International Space Station, they are optimistic that a fix to the problem delaying lift off is just weeks away. But a new round of tests and procedures that NASA is planning almost certainly means that the January 10 launch date the agency had hoped for just weeks ago is not going to happen.

• NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back [Launch Pad Crash]

  newVideoPlayer("complex40boom_gizmodo.flv", 494, 390,""); We have seen many spectacular demolitions, but the destruction of the Mobile Service Structure at NASA/USAF's Launch Complex 40 in Cape Canaveral, Florida, is perhaps the most striking of them all: instead of imploding down, the whole ultra-strong metal structure falls to it side and actually seems to bounce on the ground—shattering cameras a mile away—looking almost intact after the dust clears up.

• NASA Last shuttle launch for Columbia - Raw video MUST SEE

  NASA Last shuttle launch for Columbia - Raw video MUST SEEiweberdudei3 mn - 31 oct. 2006This video was shot with my DVCPro camera and gear by a crew from Israel who hired my services to uplink this video (I had leased out a KU band uplink truck at the time) back to their country. This video depicts a rare glimpse of an actual shuttle launch that is unedited. Turn your volume up and experience the roar of the booster rockets through your woofer speakers.

• Travail d'équipe

  Faire un magazine toutes les semaines, c'est avant tout un travail d'equipe. C'est beau comme formule ! Alors lorsque le redacteur en chef adjoint demande des infos sur telle ou telle photo, Carole, au service Icono, va se mettre en quatre pour lui repondre...et tout ca avec le sourire. Qu'il est bon de vivre a Closer...oups! d'y travailler.

• NASA Prepares Shuttle Atlantis Tank for Sensor Fix

  Technicians at Kennedy Space Center on Friday started removing foam insulation from a portion of shuttle Atlantis' external tank to get ready to start work repairing the faulty wiring connecting the tank's vital fuel sensors. A test earlier this week identified the wiring as being behind the fuel sensor malfunction that has delayed Atlantis' long-awaited mission to the International Space Station for more than a month.

• NASA's Ares 1 Rocket in Trouble Again: Could Crash Into Launch Tower [Nasa]

  NASA's Ares 1 rocket may be facing another large technological hurdle before it can take part in the future lunar missions: it's apparently in danger of banging into its own launch tower if the wind is up. Actually, the wind needs only be a gentle-sounding 12.7mph from the south-east to cause problems, and it's all to do with how the rocket's solid fuel motor causes it to "hop" on ignition, before it powers upwards.

• Historic Photo Shows Atlantis and Endeavour Together for the Last Time [Nasa]

  How's this for a truly awesome photo? Shown in the foreground is Space Shuttle Atlantis on Launch Pad A. The shuttle in the background is Endeavour, on Launch Pad B. Currently, both shuttles are locked and loaded for launch, should something go wrong up in space with the October 11 Atlantis mission. As Tom explains over at his Astronomy Blog, having two shuttles on the pad at the same time is rare.

• SpaceX Moves Launches to Cape Canaveral, Closer to Rockets That Don't Always Explode [Space]

  After three fiery failed test launches of its Falcon 1 rocket (the last one carrying NASA's first solar sail craft and Scotty from Star Trek's ashes), Elon Musk's SpaceX is setting up shop at a new launch site—Cape Canaveral's Space Launch Complex 40, which is just south of SLC-39A/B, from which the Space Shuttle and Apollo moon missions have headed skyward for decades. There they hope to prepare the first test of their Falcon 9 vehicle.

• NASA Night Launch 0.6

  NASA Night Launch un theme Firefox sur la Nasa...