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BBC News
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The American space shuttle Discovery has successfully touched down at the Kennedy space centre in the US state of Florida.
Nasa officials gave the go-ahead for the landing, saying it should not be affected by the earlier loss of a metal clip from Disco..
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BBC News
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The US space shuttle Endeavour has docked with the International Space Station (ISS) hundreds of miles above Southeast Asia.
The three residents of the ISS greeted the seven astronauts with hugs as they boarded the orbiting space station.
During 12..
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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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MSNBC
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Newly released NASA e-mails hint at something more than a professional relationship between former astronaut Lisa Nowak and a space shuttle pilot.
But the exchanges between Nowak and astronaut William Oefelein aren't nearly as saucy as the ones between..
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BBC News
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The US space agency Nasa has delayed launch of the Atlantis shuttle until 2008 because of a persistent problem with a sensor on a fuel tank.
Two attempts to launch the shuttle have been cancelled since Thursday, and only a few days remained for launch..
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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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Associated Press
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Atlantis' seven astronauts prepared to return to Houston from California on Saturday to reunite with their families, a day after the space shuttle was diverted to the state but landed safely.
Families and friends gathered Friday at the Kennedy Space Ce..
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FOX News
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The crews of Atlantis and the international space station greeted each other with hugs and handshakes Sunday after the space shuttle arrived at the orbiting outpost.
But amid the smiles and salutations, engineers in Houston 220 miles below started eval..
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CNN
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Since the beginning of the year, NASA has endured an astronaut's arrest in a bizarre love triangle, a workplace murder-suicide and a freak hail storm at the launch pad.
What it hasn't had is a space shuttle launch.
NASA hoped to change all that with..
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BBC News
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The space shuttle Discovery has docked at the International Space Station (ISS) after a two-day voyage, carrying a $1bn (�500m) Japanese laboratory.
The 16-tonne Kibo lab will be the station's biggest room, for the study of biomedicine and material s..
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MSNBC
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The space shuttle Discovery performed a slow backflip and then docked at the international space station on Monday, delivering a mammoth lab and two new occupants: a NASA astronaut and Buzz Lightyear.
Back at the launch site, meanwhile, NASA hurriedly..
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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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Japan is about to roll out the Lexus of space station labs, a whopper in size and sophistication.
The $1 billion Kibo lab — which means “hope” in Japanese — is poised for a Saturday launch aboard the space shuttle Discovery. It will be the bigg..
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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.
Getti..
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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 space shuttle Endeavour pulled up to the international space station and docked Wednesday, kicking off almost two weeks of demanding construction work.
Before the late-night linkup, Endeavour’s commander, Dominic Gorie, guided the shuttle through..
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MSNBC
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In-flight heat shield inspections were begun after shuttle Columbia disintegrated while returning to Earth in 2003, killing the seven astronauts on board.
An investigation found that insulating foam flew off the fuel tank during launch, struck the wing..
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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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