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Like handymen caulking a bathtub, two spacewalking astronauts squirted pink putty into deliberately damaged tile samples to test a new technique for repairing the space shuttle's fragile heat shield.
NASA savored the return Wednesday of Atlantis and its astronauts from a near-perfect space station mission — then quickly revved up anticipation for another shuttle launch next month.
After nearly two weeks in orbit, Atlantis and its crew aimed for a Wednesday landing on either coast to clear the way for the military to shoot down a dying spy satellite.
The 10 astronauts aboard the linked space shuttle and space station wrapped up their joint work and got ready to say goodbye.
The space shuttle Atlantis undocked from the international space station early Monday for its journey back to Earth, ending a nearly nine-day visit to deliver, install and activate Europe's new orbital laboratory.
After four months aboard the international space station, astronaut Daniel Tani can't wait to get back on the planet so he can dine with a plate and spit after he brushes his teeth.
Two spacewalking astronauts hung science experiments on the outside of the space station's new lab Friday and packed up a broken gyroscope for next week's shuttle ride home.
Two spacewalking astronauts supplied the international space station with a fresh tank of nitrogen gas Wednesday, one of them a German who was too sick to venture outside a few days earlier.
The German astronaut who was too sick to perform a spacewalk refused to say what ailed him, but insisted he's feeling great — albeit a little anxious — for Wednesday's outing.
Europe's shiny new $2 billion science lab, Columbus, was unloaded from shuttle Atlantis and hoisted toward the international space station on Monday by a team of astronauts laboring inside and out.
After scouring the Internet to fill her house with only the best toys for her infant twin sons, Lori Pope hated to watch the clutter build as the boys lost interest.
Shuttle Atlantis' sick German astronaut looked and sounded well Sunday as he helped a crewmate prepare for a spacewalk that should have been his.
Space shuttle Atlantis and its crew delivered a sparkling new lab to the international space station on Saturday, smoothly docking after a two-day chase around the world.
Atlantis' astronauts spent their first full day in orbit Friday scrupulously checking their ship for any launch day damage, as they steered ever closer to the international space station.
A convicted murderer awaiting execution killed himself in his cell at a psychiatric center just three days after another condemned man on Texas' death row did the same, prison officials said Monday.
An embattled prosecutor facing a contempt charge for deleting e-mails was grilled Friday by a federal judge who said he should have known better than to erase material he had been ordered to turn over.
When people ask Chuck Rosenthal how he's doing, the most powerful prosecutor in Texas has a trademark response: "I'm blessed." And for most of his bulletproof career, he seemed to be.
A jury convicted a man Tuesday of raping another man, one of five sexual assaults he is accused of committing on men in an eight-month spree in 2006. The sentencing phase of the trial was to begin later Tuesday for Keith Hill, who could receive anything from five years' probation to life in prison for aggravated sexual assault.
The Texas Attorney General's office agreed Thursday to investigate whether a powerful prosecutor should lose his job for sending and receiving inappropriate messages through his county e-mail account.
The man considered Texas' most powerful district attorney faced intense pressure to resign Wednesday following the release of sexually and racially charged messages he sent and received using his county e-mail account.
The space shuttle Atlantis' mission to the international space station likely will be pushed back a few more days or weeks as engineers study problems with electrical connectors in the spaceship's external fuel tank, a top NASA manager said Thursday.
Daniel M. Tani's 90-year-old mother died in an auto accident this week, but he has no way of getting home until late January. He must grieve from more than 200 miles away — in orbit, aboard the international space station.
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee on Tuesday defended his Christmas ad amid suggestions that the ordained Baptist minister had gone too far mixing religion and politics.
An attorney for the stepfather accused of killing the toddler known as "Baby Grace" said Thursday that his client didn't kill the girl, and blamed her mother for mischaracterizing what happened.
A couple accused of beating their toddler to death, tucking her body in a plastic box and dumping it in Galveston Bay have been indicted on charges of capital murder.
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