Europe readies huge space truck
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Europe's ATV will be the biggest spacecraft Europe has ever flown when it launches in January.
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Europe&#39;s first mission to the Moon is about to start. The unmanned, solar energy driven SMART-1 spacecraft has entered the orbit around the Moon.
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ORLANDO, Florida -- Replanting boot prints on the Moon. Hurling expeditionary crews to distant and dusty Mars and other destinations. Executing a 21st century outreach campaign to faraway worlds demands a safe, sustainable, and affordable transport vehicle system.
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Atlantis maneuvered toward a rendezvous with the international space station on Saturday, bringing a new $2 billion lab that European scientists can't wait to see installed.
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PARIS, France -- Europe&#39;s first mission to the moon has successfully entered lunar orbit, a key milestone in its 13-month trip into space.
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Europe's most powerful rocket to date, the Ariane 5-ECA, blasts off from a spaceport in French Guiana.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. &#x2014; Europe's bus-sized science lab will soon make its zero-gravity debut after the launch of NASA's space shuttle Atlantis tomorrow, weather permitting.
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The European Union will begin its largest-ever peacekeeping operation on Thursday when it takes over from the Nato mission to Bosnia Hercegovina.
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A European rocket roared into space from a pad in French Guyana yesterday, placing into orbit a surveillance satellite expected to give France&#39;s military new abilities to spy worldwide.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  -- After two months of delay, shuttle Atlantis blasted off Thursday with Europe's gift to the international space station, a $2 billion science lab named Columbus that spent years waiting to set sail.
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Cosmonauts are to carry a copy of the EU constitution into space, as EU leaders seek to raise its profile.
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Europeâs new Columbus science module became a permanent part of the International Space Station on Monday.
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One of the world's largest optical telescopes, based in Spain, will peer into space for the first time.
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Astronauts placed the crown jewel of Europeâs contribution to the International Space Station into its permanent setting on Monday with the attachment of the Columbus science module.
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A European satellite designed to improve weather forecasting has been given a new launch date.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 12  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- After traveling thousands of miles, a major component of the International Space Station is set to begin preparations for launch.
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European scientists are about to reach for the moon. After a 13-month journey, driven by a new kind of technology, an experimental spacecraft the size of a washing machine will begin to orbit around the moon on Monday night.