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By Tariq Malik WASHINGTON - Fresh on the heels of a successful flight to the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA is again gearing up to launch a space shuttle into orbit, but bad weather could delay the June spaceflight, mission managers said Thursday. ...
Park said he and other scientists originally believed microgravity would be the Holy Grail for many materials science programs, such as the creation of large, nearly perfect protein crystals. Years of research on the space shuttle and previous space ...
Ed Weiler, NASA's science missions chief, said Hubble is in the midst of meticulous systems and calibration checks following the successful upgrades and repairs by Atlantis shuttle astronauts. "All of those have gone beautifully," Weiler told reporters ...