Atlantis astronauts begin second spacewalk (AFP)
Space station alarm delays Atlantis crew spacewalk (AFP)
Astronauts Prepare for Second Spacewalk, New Baby (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - Astronaut Randy Bresnik may be expecting his wife Rebecca to give birth, but that hasn't shaken his focus for a planned spacewalk outside the International Space Station today to install new video antennas and other equipment. NASA: Birth of Astronaut's Daughter Delayed (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - NASA has joined astronaut Randy Bresnik, who is in orbit now, in the waiting game for the birth his daughter, just one day before the spaceflyer is poised to make his first spacewalk. Astronauts Unfazed by False Alarms in Space (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - Astronauts on the linked shuttle Atlantis and International Space Station said Friday that they're not worried about recent false alarms that disrupted their sleep with erroneous reports of calamity. Key Parts Returned from Hubble Telescope Now on Display at Smithsonian (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - WASHINGTON - The camera that captured many of the Hubble Space Telescope's most famous images and the "contact lenses" that focused the observatory's flawed mirror debuted Wednesday at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. along with the first phase of a new interactive gallery devo...... Ask AP: Shuttle complexity, credit union agency (AP)
Stuck Mars Rover Finally Budges, a Little (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - NASA's stuck Mars rover Spirit took a tiny step Thursday, its first progress in months, during the latest attempt to extricate the robot from deep Martian sand. Maine Engineer Wins $250,000 in NASA Space Glove Contest (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - An aerospace engineer from Maine, the reigning champion of NASA's Astronaut Glove Challenge, held onto his title Thursday to win first prize in a competition to build a better space glove than those worn by astronauts today. You can save this news page by submitting it to your favorite sites:
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AP - A spacewalking astronaut put aside the impending birth of his daughter and concentrated instead on his first-ever venture outside the International Space Station on Saturday.
AFP - Two space shuttle Atlantis astronauts began the second of their mission's three spacewalks Saturday for maintenance work and to install more high-tech gadgets outside the International Space Station.
AP - A space shuttle is no tinker toy. But is it the most complex machine ever built?
