spaceshuttle Atlantis apparently was hit by a piece of debris thatnicked part

spaceshuttle Atlantis apparently was hit by a piece of debris thatnicked part of its heat shield but the damage appeared veryminor, NASA said on Tuesday. * More inspections are unlikely * Launch pad damage also discovered after lift-off * Shuttle to reach Hubble Telescope on Wednesday(Adds more details of scratch damage) By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla May 12 (Reuters) - The U.S. The Deer Park refinery is a 50-50 joint venture betweenShell, which manages the plant, and Mexico's state-owned oilmonopoly Pemex. The Deer Park refinery is the ninth-largest inthe United States Shell Oil Co is the U.S unit of Royal Dutch Shell Plc(RDSa.L). (Reporting by Erwin Seba; Editing by Marguerita Choy) Stocks Mexico. Power and steam were lost Monday morning with theunexpected outage of the Calpine steam utilities plant, whichsupplies the Shell complex in the Houston suburb of Deer Park,Texas, the company has said.

Units were also restarting at the adjoining chemical plant,she said "The chemical plant was harder hit," Oberton said. Oberton said the expected date of the refinery's return tonormal operations was not immediately available. In a notice filed Tuesday with the Texas Commission onEnvironmental Quality, Shell said the restart could lastthrough Friday. Simultaneously, feed was being introduced into therefinery's gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracking unitwhile the refinery's hydrocracker is in prestartup and thehydrotreater is restarting. The refinery's coking unit was also at planned ratesTuesday afternoon, said Shell spokeswoman Emily Oberton.

(Adds background, details) Stocks  |  Mexico HOUSTON, May 12 (Reuters) - Shell Oil Co said on Tuesdayafternoon the two crude units at its 340,000 barrel per day(bpd) joint-venture refinery in Deer Park, Texas, were atplanned production rates following recovery from a Mondaymorning power and steam outage. Hubble is one of the most productive and ground-breaking science instruments of modern day astronomy.With the upgrades, NASA hopes to keep the Hubble Telescope running until at least 2014.(Additional reporting by Chris Baltimore in Houston, Editing by Pascal Fletcher and Chris Wilson) U.S. Science. Atlantis is due to reach the Hubble Telescope on Wednesday.While the shuttle astronauts scoured their ship for damage, teams on the ground inspected the launch pad.Damage was discovered in an area known as the flame trench, which lies beneath the shuttle's mobile launcher platform. The affected area deflects flames from the solid rocket boosters.The launch pad is next scheduled to be used for a June 13 mission to the International Space Station."Right now there's no indication that this would delay launch," said Kennedy Space Center spokeswoman Candrea Thomas.The launch pad damage does not affect NASA's contingency provisions for a standby rescue mission for the Atlantis crew, which would be launched from different pad.The Atlantis astronauts plan five days of spacewalks to install two new cameras in Hubble, replace positioning gyroscopes and batteries and repair two broken science instruments.It is NASA's fifth and final servicing mission to the observatory, which has been operational since 1990. But agency officials said later that a detailed inspection was unlikely.Early analysis of images relayed by the crew revealed a scratch about 21 inches long across four heat-resistant ceramic tiles."It looks like something just kind of chattered its way down along that edge," deputy shuttle program manager LeRoy Cain said at a briefing, showing a picture of unidentified debris that hit the ship 104 seconds after liftoff. space agency's last chance to tinker with thetelescope -- which has vastly expanded scientists' knowledge of the universe -- before NASA ends the shuttle program in 2010.NASA told the Atlantis crew additional inspections might be needed of the area where the ship's right wing joins the fuselage around where the debris hit. U.S.  |  ScienceAtlantis and its seven-member crew blasted off from Florida on Monday on an 11-day mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.It will be the U.S.

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