Shuttle cleared for night launch
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Nasa clears the space shuttle Discovery for a rare night launch after bad weather delays the event by a day.
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By Martin Merzer, The Miami Herald  May 31--A two-day flight readiness review ended Thursday with NASA formally clearing shuttle Atlantis and its seven astronauts for a long-delayed mission to the International Space Station.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - The U.S. space shuttle Atlantis was rolled out to its seaside launch pad on Thursday in preparation for a planned liftoff in March on the first of five missions NASA hopes to fly this year.
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By Martin Merzer, The Miami Herald  Dec. 8--CAPE CANAVERAL -- After a countdown foiled by a low layer of clouds, NASA will try again Saturday night to launch Discovery and its seven astronauts on the last shuttle mission of the year.   Liftoff is scheduled for 8:47 p.m. EST Saturday.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA on Wednesday   cleared the space shuttle Atlantis for a return to Earth on   Thursday after inspections found no damage to the spacecraft, a   NASA official said.
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By DENA POTTER  RICHMOND, Va. - Air Force officials on Thursday cleared an experimental satellite for the first rocket launch from the mid-Atlantic region's commercial spaceport, after a software glitch had grounded it. The launch was rescheduled for Saturday.
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Space shuttle Atlantis was cleared to depart the international space station after a test Monday showed Russian computers that crashed last week can control the outpost's orientation.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA planned to try again on Saturday to launch the shuttle Discovery on a mission to rewire the International Space Station, but the weather forecast kept the nighttime launch in doubt.
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Shuttle lands to clear skies for shot at broken probe amid criticism Pentagon is militarising space
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By Martin Merzer, The Miami Herald  Dec. 7--CAPE CANAVERAL -- NASA monitored discouraging weather forecasts but otherwise declared shuttle Discovery ready for tonight's blastoff, the first night launch in four years and one that might be visible from South Florida.
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By Martin Merzer, The Miami Herald  Dec. 9--CAPE CANAVERAL -- Its first countdown foiled by low clouds Thursday night, NASA will try again tonight to launch Discovery and its seven astronauts on the last shuttle mission of the year.   Liftoff is scheduled for 8:47 p.m.
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Air Force officials on Thursday cleared an experimental satellite for the first rocket launch from the mid-Atlantic region's commercial spaceport, after a software glitch had grounded it. The launch was rescheduled for Saturday.
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By Martin Merzer, The Miami Herald  Jun. 1--A two-day flight readiness review ended Thursday with NASA formally clearing shuttle Atlantis and its seven astronauts for a long-delayed mission to the International Space Station.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA managers on Sunday cleared space shuttle Discovery for launch on Tuesday to attach a vestibule to the International Space Station that will serve as the doorway to European and Japanese laboratories.
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NASA managers said the craft showed no sign of damage, and they cleared it to land early Thursday.
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The space shuttle  Discovery soared into space on Saturday on a column of fire  that briefly dispelled the darkness over the Kennedy Space  Center in NASA's first night launch since the Columbia  disaster.
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By SETH BORENSTEIN  HOUSTON - NASA gave space shuttle Atlantis the all-clear to come home Thursday after a stem-to-stern inspection prompted by a mysterious flurry of orbital litter found no damage to the ship.