Nasa readies for asteroid mission
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A Nasa spacecraft set for launch early next month will explore the two biggest asteroids in the Solar System.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - A pioneering spacecraft that could serve as a blueprint for future interplanetary transport blasted off aboard an unmanned Delta rocket on Thursday on a mission to explore two giant asteroids between Mars and Jupiter.
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NASA is planning to begin a mission to the International Space Station on Tuesday, but a last-minute dispute is raising fundamental questions about the risks.
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An asteroid expected to fly past Earth in 2029 will be visible to the naked eye, scientists projected Thursday.
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The US space agency, NASA, continues work on improving the safety of the space shuttle, before the fleet of orbiters resumes its visits to the international space station next year.
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NASA and university astronomers are eagerly awaiting  the launch of a&nbsp;space probe bound to collide with a comet and give  researchers a glimpse inside the solar system's&nbsp;icy  wanderers.&nbsp;
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Astronomers have obtained the first images of an asteroid on course to make its closest approach to Earth on Tuesday, showing the space rock is lopsided.
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There's a 1-in-300 chance that a recently discovered asteroid, believed to be about 1,300 feet long, could hit Earth in 2029, a NASA scientist said Thursday, but he added that the perceived risk probably will be eliminated once astronomers get more detail about its orbit.
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Dec. 23, 2004 - As many earthlings prepare for Christmas celebrations this weekend, more than two billion kilometres (one billion miles) away a small space probe will begin the final stage of a long journey aimed at a touchdown on one of Saturn&#39;s moons.
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An asteroid hurtling towards Mars has a one in 75 chance of chance of scoring a direct hit on the red planet next month, NASA experts said in a statement Friday.
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A recently discovered 1,300 feet long asteroid -- 2004 MN4 --has a slim chance of hitting Earth in the year 2029, according to the statements of NASA.
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NASA prepared to launch  the space shuttle Atlantis on Thursday on a mission to deliver  Europe's first permanent space laboratory to the International  Space Station.
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An asteroid named for a Celtic god of war will come as close to Earth this week as it has since 1353. The space rock known as Toutatis will come on Wednesday within 960,000 miles of
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Tumbling through space like a fumbled football, a peanut-shaped asteroid named 4179 Toutatis is expected to pass within a million miles (1.6 million kilometers) of Earth on Wednesday.
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NASA engineers are set to launch their Deep Impact space mission tomorrow. The space shot aims to smash an 820-pound (370-kilogram) projectile into a comet on July 4, 2005.
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NASA officials say the space agency is capable of finding nearly all the asteroids that might pose a devastating hit to Earth, but there isn't enough money to pay for the task so it won't get done.
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The US space agency is set to launch on Thursday the space probe Dawn on an eight-year mission to unlock the secrets of the solar system and how it was born.