Wildlife share NASA launch site
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Alligators, manatees and vultures share Kennedy Space Centre with space shuttle Discovery, so for more than 40 years NASA has had to adjust to launching rockets in the middle of a national wildlife refuge.
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REDFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Nearly two years after their experiments were destroyed in the Columbia shuttle explosion, high school students are getting a second chance to see how space affects everyday things such as hair, flowering seeds and plant food.
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TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, New Mexico  - A rocket   packed with cargo is set to blast off into space from a desert   launch range in New Mexico, an event backers say will usher in   a new era of cheap public access to space.
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Data from Nasa's Mars rover Opportunity shows its landing site is a prime spot for a return mission to look for life.
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The space shuttle Atlantis has been successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - Space shuttle Discovery blasted off on Tuesday for a construction mission at the International Space Station, raising hope that NASA will be able to add laboratories for European and Japanese partners later this year.
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By SONJA BARISIC  ATLANTIC, Va. - Spectators cheered as a rocket carrying two experimental satellites blasted off Saturday in the first launch from the mid-Atlantic region's commercial spaceport, creating a blazing streak across the sky just before sunrise.
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By Mike Schneider  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Discovery lit up the sky late Saturday, blazing off for the first nighttime space shuttle launch in four years - the latest step in NASA's ambitious schedule to complete the international space station.
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On Thursday night, Nature and NASA will collaborate in a painting that will use the skies over the Eastern seaboard as a cosmic canvas. The materials are a nearly full moon, the stars and a streaking space shuttle.
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NASA expects to have  twice as much room as it needs for its research on the  International Space Station and is looking for U.S. partners to  share the novel piece of real estate, authorities said on  Monday.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - Hoping for good weather   and better luck, NASA started fueling the space shuttle   Atlantis on Saturday for a last-ditch attempt to launch a   mission to resume construction of the International Space   Station.
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NASA is looking to share unused space aboard the International Space Station for science experiments, officials said.
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Weather concerns are growing as NASA nears its scheduled launch of the shuttle Discovery.
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By TRAVIS REED CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Nearly 40 astronauts on Friday became the first to ride aboard a NASA tourist attraction that recreates a ride aboard the space shuttle, complete with the deep rumble of liftoff and a serene view of the earth from orbit.
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By SONJA BARISIC  NORFOLK, Va. - A rocket carrying satellites for the Air Force and NASA is set to blast off Monday from the Virginia shore in the first launch from the mid-Atlantic region's commercial spaceport.
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Play nice, boffins As NASA greenlights its next Shuttle launch (8 June, for those keeping track), 14 international space agencies have agreed to cooperate on a rather more grandiose mission: bringing samples of the Martian surface back to Earth.â¦
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By Anonymous  Plum Brook research station in Sandusky has received a $63 million federal contract from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).