Entrepreneur giving space shuttle truss new uses Date: May 14, 2013 Source: NASA Summary: A truss design devised to help workers process space shuttles continues to find new uses as a space ...

Discovery astronauts completed the first major task of their mission Tuesday, successfully installing the 2-ton P5 truss on the International Space Station’s main backbone during a six-hour ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Oct. 14 -- The Discovery astronauts recovered from a potentially crippling short circuit today and installed a nine-ton structural truss on the spine of the International Space ...

The S1 truss segment also will house communications systems, external experiment positions and other subsystems. Primarily constructed of aluminum, the truss segment is 45 feet long, 15 feet wide ...

CAPE CANAVERAL – In a big room at Kennedy Space Center, cylindrical labs and plastic-draped trusses surround a 17-ton space girder whose time to fly has come. Skip to main content.

Discovery astronauts completed the first major task of their mission yesterday, installing a 2-ton truss on the International Space Station’s main backbone during a six-hour spacewalk.While ...

Discovery astronauts completed the first major task of their mission Tuesday, successfully installing the 2-ton P5 truss on the International Space Station's main backbone during a six-hour spacewalk.

Army astronaut Col. Doug Wheelock and mission specialist Scott Parazynski began a spacewalk at 4:45 a.m. EDT today to help fasten the Port 6 truss to its new home on the International Space Station.