Atlantis astronauts Patrick Forrester and Steve Swanson, will likely use a sewing kit, reserved usually for spacesuits to repair a peeled-back thermal blanket near the spacecraft's tail, NASA managers said.
As the shuttle, scheduled to dock at 3:38 pm (0108 IST on Monday), closes in on the ISS, the stage is set for changes at the station and for its crew members.
Williams, 41, is also set to break astronaut Shannon Lucid's record for the longest stay in space ever by a woman -- 188 days and 4 hours -- on June 16, three days before Atlantis brings her back to Earth.
The forecast for Friday morning is for light winds and a zero per cent chance of weather prohibiting the loading of propellants into the external tank.
Williams will be in rehab for at least 45 days, depending on her overall health condition, after which both her parents will join her in Houston, where she has been living since 1998 after being selected as astronaut by NASA.
This is Samir's fifth and final national spelling bee competition. He hopes to be the numero uno speller this time.
Information technology professionals, one of main reasons for introduction of the H-1B visa by the US, are gradually losing out their share of the temporary visa programme to teachers and doctors, a study reveals.
Children of mothers who ate the most apples were less likely to ever have wheezed or have doctor-confirmed asthma at the age of 5 years.
Ruling out any foul play in the incident, police said they are calling it an accidental drowning.
Strokes in children may occur even more often than brain tumors, says Jordan, but unlike cancer, sadly, strokes in children are sometimes not recognised and treated, or at least not as early as they should be.
The NASA contract engineer had received a poor job review and feared that he could be fired.
Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment.
Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams, who plans to run the 26.2 mile Boston Marathon on board the International Space Station on April 16, finds it a challenging exercise.
Williams, who qualified for the Boston race by finishing the Houston Marathon last year in 3 hours, 29 minutes and 57 seconds, will run the race on a station treadmill.
The fellowship, open to resident aliens, naturalised US citizens, and first generation Americans who have completed or are about to complete undergraduate degrees, will support each student for up to two years of graduate study.
The team observed a dialogue between the hippocampus and the neocortex, areas of the brain where memories are made and stored.
An atmospheric scientist, Ramanathan focuses his research on global climate dynamics, the greenhouse effect, aerosols, clouds, and the earth radiation budget.
Sunita and Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria completed the last of the internal assembly tasks for the startup later this year of the new Oxygen Generation System in the Destiny laboratory.
First suggested by Albert Einstein more than 100 years ago, the paradox deals with the effects of time in the context of travel at near the speed of light.
Each of the 12 astrological signs have at least two medical disorders associated with them, thus placing people born under a given sign at increased risk compared to those born under different signs, according to a new survey.
