Space freighter given launch date
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Europe's 20-tonne supply ship for the International Space Station will have its maiden flight on Saturday 8 March.
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The European Space Agency says its first Automated Transfer Vehicle, called the Jules Verne, will be ready for launch early next year.
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Russia hopes to launch three astronauts to the International Space Station next month, setting a new date after two postponements for technical reasons, space officials said on Wednesday. Technical difficulties, including problems with the docking system of the Soyuz craft, have twice delayed blast-off from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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TORONTO, Canada -- A second team of rocketeers competing for the &#36;10 million Ansari X Prize, a contest for privately funded suborbital space flight, has officially announced the first launch date for its manned rocket.
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NASA will try to launch  the space shuttle Atlantis as early as January 24 on a delayed  mission to deliver Europe's first permanent space laboratory to  the International Space Station, mission managers said on  Thursday.
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration Test Director Steve Payne said he expected space shuttle Atlantis to launch as scheduled Friday.
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MOSCOW: The launch of a Soyuz rocket due to carry the next Russian-US crew to the International Space Station (ISS) on October 9 is set to be delayed for technical reasons, Russian space officials said on Wednesday.
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SpaceShipOne, the rocket plane that blasted into space on Wednesday in the first of its $10m Ansari X-Prize flights, will launch again on Monday.
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The new crew of the international space station will head into space on Oct. 14, Russia said Friday, after two delays pushed back the launch.
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NASA managers are targeting a Feb. 7 launch date for the space shuttle Atlantis as engineers prepare to replace an electrical connector in the spacecraft's external fuel tank.
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NASA has chosen two aerospace companies to develop a commercial spaceship capable of flying cargo to the International Space Station.
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The crew of the International Space Station is expecting a visitor on Christmas Day, but it wonât be Santa Claus. Instead, it will be the cargo ship, the ISS Progress 16, carrying 2.5 tons of goodies and supplies to the Space Station.
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NASA prepared to launch space shuttle Discovery on a complex International Space Station mission, even as lingering clouds threatened to delay liftoff by at least 24 hours.
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NASA officials  have given the green light for a June 8 launch of the space shuttle Atlantis to  deliver new solar arrays to the International Space Station (ISS).
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The repair of a landing gear leak on the  space shuttle Discovery could put in jeopardy the U.S.  spacecraft&#39;s October 23 launch date on a construction mission  to the International Space Station, NASA said on Monday.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA is set to launch another component of the International Space Station into orbit on Friday, three months behind schedule but in compliance with more rigorous safety standards imposed after the space shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003.
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Nasa mission managers give the go-ahead for the space shuttle Atlantis to launch on Thursday of next week.