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CNN
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NASA says it is extending the international Cassini mission that is touring Saturn and its moons for another two years. The space agency announced the extension Tuesday. Since 2004, the unmanned probe has beamed back about 140,000 images. Its prime missio..
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BBC News
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Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Atlantis are preparing for the mission's first spacewalk.
The spacewalk was originally scheduled for Sunday, but had to be delayed by 24 hours after European crew member Hans Schlegel was taken ill.
Mr Schlegel wa..
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MSNBC
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NASA managers on Tuesday cleared space shuttle Atlantis for liftoff in two days on a mission to deliver Europe's first permanent space laboratory to the International Space Station.
Launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida is scheduled for 2:45..
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BBC News
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Nasa is very likely to support plans to despatch a British probe to the Moon, BBC News has learned.
The proposal to send a unmanned mission called Moonlite into orbit around the Moon has the backing of those planning Nasa's own return to the Moon.
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BBC News
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The hole in space shuttle Endeavour's underside will not be repaired before it returns to Earth, Nasa has said.
Agency officials took almost a week to decide whether to send astronauts outside to repair the 9cm (3.5in) gash.
They had been worried th..
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BBC News
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Submarines accompanying a Russian naval mission aimed at boosting Moscow's claim to Arctic territory are shortly expected to dive below the North Pole.
The two Mir submarines plan to dive to the ocean floor, 4,200m (14,000ft) below the pole, to carry o..
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BBC News
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Early results from a Nasa mission designed to test two key predictions of Albert Einstein show the great man was right about at least one of them.
It will take another eight months to determine whether he got the other correct say scientists analysing..
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CBS News
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A Russian-built Soyuz capsule carrying the American billionaire who helped develop Microsoft Word docked at the international space station late Monday � to the earthbound applause of Martha Stewart and others at Mission Control.
The lifestyle guru w..
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Huffington Post
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That was the question on some minds after the apparent breakdown of Lisa Nowak, arrested in Orlando this month on charges she tried to kidnap and kill a woman she regarded as her rival for another astronaut's affections. It turns out NASA has a detaile..
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BBC News
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The first private manned mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is set to go ahead in 2011, a US space tourism company has announced.
The mission has been agreed between the company Space Adventures and the Russian federal space agency.
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BBC News
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A Nasa space telescope is about to launch on a mission to explore the Universe with "gamma-ray glasses".
The Glast mission will shed light on some of the most violent events in the Universe, that release massive amounts of energy in the form of gamma-r..
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BBC News
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Nasa's Discovery shuttle has blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a 14-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
The shuttle and its crew of seven are delivering a giant cylinder for Japan's Kibo science lab but also a ne..
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MSNBC
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NASA’s final visit to the Hubble Space Telescope is now set for Oct. 8.
Atlantis and a crew of seven were supposed to fly to Hubble at the end of August, but the mission was delayed because of extra time needed to build the shuttle fuel tanks require..
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BBC News
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The date of the shuttle mission to repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope should be confirmed in the next few weeks, Nasa says.
The flight is currently set for 28 August but the US space agency admits this will slip by four to five weeks.
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BBC News
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India has successfully launched 10 satellites in a single mission, boosting its capabilities in space.
The rocket was carrying an Indian remote-sensing satellite and nine smaller ones, eight of them foreign.
The launch, from the Sriharikota space ce..
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MSNBC
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The Cassini spacecraft's mission at Saturn has been extended by two years, NASA announced on Tuesday, allowing the plucky probe to continue scouting the planet and its exotic medley of moons.
Launched in October 1997, the nuclear-powered Cassini spacec..
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BBC News
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The US space shuttle Endeavour has landed successfully in Florida after the longest mission of its kind to the International Space Station.
Endeavour's descent was slightly delayed by poor weather at the Kennedy Space Center.
During their 16-day mis..
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BBC News
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Two astronauts on a mission to the International Space Station (ISS) have begun their first space walk.
Hours after arriving aboard the shuttle Endeavour, Richard Linnehan and Garrett Reisman are undertaking two operations.
They must attach a sectio..
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MSNBC
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The shuttle Endeavour and its crew of seven blasted off Tuesday on what was to be the longest space station mission ever, a 16-day voyage to build a gangly robot and add a new room that will serve as a closet for Japan’s future lab.
The space shuttle..
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BBC News
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The boss of the European Space Agency has asked his officials to find a new name for the flagship ExoMars mission.
Jean Jacques Dordain said the rover concept had changed so radically since first envisioned and costed that it was really now a new ventu..
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