HOUSTON - Working with space caulk guns anda pair of scrapers, two NASA astronauts put a black, sticky goo through itspaces during a Wednesday spacewalk to test basic shuttle heat shield ...

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 ...

The heat shield of Orion, returned by Artemis I, was battered and bruised over 100 times, and NASA intends to put four people ...

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 ...

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 ...

Houston, March 21 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) -- After completing a spacewalk to test a shuttle heat shield repair technique, astronauts aboard Endeavour on Friday used a ...

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 ...