...space station Alpha's American-made Unity module. The visit came one day after shuttle astronauts Joe Tanner and Carlos Noriega tightened a new solar wing on the space station. That operation unexpectedly required only the first 1 1/2 hours...

...tear or the wing to bend or break during shuttle dockings. NASA's repair plan calls for astronauts Joe Tanner and Carlos Noriega to try to fix the problem at the start of their third spacewalk Thursday. The astronauts will climb to the top of...

...schedule of activities Monday after a busy day of construction work. During a 7 1/2-hour spacewalk, astronauts Carlos Noriega and Joe Tanner helped attach the truss containing the solar wings to space station Alpha. It went smoothly until...

...astronaut Joe Tanner said from Endeavour in an interview with The Associated Press. He and spacewalking partner Carlos Noriega installed the solar wings last week, then went back out to make an unexpected repair on a wing that was too slack...