Astronauts board U.S. space shuttle ahead of launch
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla..  - The seven astronauts on the U.S. space shuttle Discovery scrambled aboard their spaceship on Tuesday to await blastoff on a construction mission to the International Space Station.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - An Olympic athlete-turned-astronaut and a rookie spaceflyer are leading a spacewalking team set to launch toward the International Space Station (ISS) aboard NASA's shuttle Discovery this week.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - The U.S. space shuttle Atlantis astronauts on Friday put on their spacesuits, scrambled into their ship and buckled in for launch. But the crew will have to wait another few weeks for actual liftoff.
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Astronauts on the shuttle Atlantis   packed up gear and checked out their spacecraft on Tuesday as   they prepared to come home from their 11-day mission to the   International Space Station.
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The six Atlantis shuttle astronauts arrived in Florida to make final preparations for next week's planned launch to resume construction of an orbiting laboratory, NASA said.
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The crew of the U.S.  space shuttle Atlantis returned to Florida on Saturday to  prepare for a new launch attempt on NASA's first International  Space Station assembly mission in nearly four years.
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US and European astronauts are preparing for their second spacewalk of the current shuttle mission.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The seven-astronaut crew of NASA&#39;s shuttle Atlantis is hoping to beat the weather to make a Florida landing today after a successful construction flight to the International Space Station (ISS).
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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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Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Atlantis performed a fly-around to get a look at the International Space Station before leaving.
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Space shuttle Discovery's seven astronauts arrived at the Kennedy Space Center Sunday for a final stretch of training and preparations before they are launched on a 12-day mission to rewire the international space station.
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Shuttle Discovery astronauts checked the orbiter's wings and nose for damage on Wednesday using lasers and a camera atop its robotic arm, a day ahead of its rendezvous with the International Space Station.
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The US space shuttle Atlantis and its seven member crew, including astronauts from France and Germany, are on a course to dock with the orbiting International Space Station Saturday after 48 hours in space.
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Astronauts stowed gear and battened   down the hatches on shuttle Atlantis on Thursday as they got   ready to land at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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SPACE.com / CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Six astronauts and NASA's shuttle Atlantis will have to wait at least one more day before launching toward the International Space Station (ISS) while engineers puzzle a fuel cell glitch aboard the spacecraft.
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Two astronauts conduct the first spacewalk of the latest shuttle mission to the International Space Station.
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Spacewalking astronauts aim to repair a  damaged thermal blanket on the space shuttle Atlantis on Friday  as U.S. and Russian controllers struggle with a worrying  computer failure on the International Space Station.