NASA begins countdown for launch
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - Clocks at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida began ticking down on Saturday toward Tuesday's planned launch of the space shuttle Discovery on a construction mission to the International Space Station.
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By AP  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.   The countdown clock on Sunday began ticking toward a Wednesday launch of the space shuttle after a week of weather delays kept Atlantis grounded.   The launch time was set for 12:29 p.m. EDT Wednesday.
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By Martin Merzer, The Miami Herald  Jun. 7--CAPE CANAVERAL -- NASA has declared the shuttle Atlantis ready to launch Friday on the year's first shuttle mission.  "After many months of hard work, Atlantis is ready to fly," NASA test director Steve Payne said Thursday morning.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA hopes to launch   its December shuttle mission a week earlier than planned to   give its workers time off for the holidays, agency officials   said on Friday.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - The countdown clock began ticking on Tuesday for the planned launch this week of the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis, which will return the beleaguered shuttle program to space after a six-month hiatus.
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Preparations are on schedule for NASA's first nighttime space shuttle launch in four years, managers said Wednesday.
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NASA is about to embark on an unprecedented asteroid-belt mission with a spacecraft aptly named Dawn. The 3 billion-mile, eight-year journey to probe the earliest stages of the solar system will begin with liftoff, planned for just after sunrise Thursday. Rain is forecast, however, and could force a delay.
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By RACHEL DAVIS Before the countdown to launch finishes at Kennedy Space Center today at 7:38 p.m., the dozens of what-ifs and worst-case scenarios have been contemplated, vetted and planned for by the hundred or so emergency personnel tasked with assuring the space shuttle a safe send-off.
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NASA is finally ready  to fly its first mission of the year, with space shuttle  Atlantis and seven astronauts scheduled for liftoff at 7:38  p.m. EDT on Friday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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NASA, recovering from the four hurricanes that halted work at its Florida spaceport, said on Friday it has set a launch target in May, 2005, for the first space shuttle flight since the 2003 Columbia disaster.
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Countdown clocks at the  Kennedy Space Center began ticking on Monday toward a Thursday  launch of space shuttle Discovery on a high-stakes mission to  rewire the International Space Station.
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NASA is preparing to launch a nimble spacecraft to detect the most violent explosions in the cosmos and study their afterglow for hints of their origin.
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The race for the $10m Ansari X-Prize begins in earnest on Wednesday as SpaceShipOne prepares to rocket to more than 100km above the Earth.
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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 on Friday set February 7 as the new target launch date for the Atlantis shuttle mission to the orbiting International Space Station (ISS) that has been beset delays over faulty fuel gauges.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - After a three-month delay, NASA entered the final day of a launch countdown for space shuttle Atlantis Thursday with no major technical problems looming and a forecast for promising weather.
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Seven NASA astronauts are poised to launch into orbit tonight aboard the shuttle Atlantis to haul vital new solar arrays to the International Space Station (ISS).