Shuttle soars toward space station
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - Space shuttle Discovery blasted off its seaside launch pad, ending a ban on night-time flights imposed after the 2003 Columbia disaster, and began chasing the International Space Station on Sunday.
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Space shuttle Atlantis and its crew streaked toward Earth on Wednesday to wrap up a 5 million-mile journey highlighted by the successful delivery of a new space station lab.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, United States: After a fiery ascent that turned night into day, space shuttle Discovery and its crew headed to the International Space Station yesterday to rewire the orbital outpost.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - Six astronauts climbed   aboard 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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Space Shuttle Discovery closes in on the International Space Station high above the Earth.
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Space shuttle Atlantis and its crew bring a sparkling new lab to the international space station on Saturday, smoothly docking after a two-day chase around the world.
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The shuttle slid gently into place at the International Space Station this morning, 218 miles over the eastern Pacific Ocean.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - The U.S. space shuttle Discovery blasted off atop a cloud of smoke on Tuesday, soaring above Florida marshlands toward a rendezvous in two days with the International Space Station.
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A jumbo jet carrying the space shuttle Atlantis took off Sunday on a return trip to the shuttle's launch site at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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The Discovery space shuttle undocked from the International Space Station to begin its journey back to Earth after an eight day construction visit.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - The U.S. space shuttle Atlantis blasted off on a construction mission to the International Space Station on Friday, ending a three-month grounding to repair the ship's hail-battered fuel tank.
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The U.S. space shuttle  Atlantis lifted off from its Florida home port on Thursday on a  mission to deliver Europe's first permanent space laboratory to  the International Space Station.
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By John Johnson Jr. Los Angeles Times  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The shuttle Atlantis, America's long- haul space truck, returned to duty Saturday, blasting into orbit with a 17-ton load of construction material for the International Space Station.
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The space shuttle Atlantis winged toward a rendezvous with the International Space Station on Sunday, lugging the heaviest payload ever for the orbital outpost and troubled only by a small tear in a heat-protecting thermal blanket.
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WASHINGTON -- With a slow and determined pace, NASA's shuttle Atlantis rolled out to its Florida launch site Thursday, where the spacecraft is slated to rocket towards the International Space Station (ISS) in one month's time.
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The U.S. space shuttle Atlantis arrived at the international space station Sunday for a swap of astronauts and delivery of new parts for the station.
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The space shuttle Atlantis dodged an approaching weather front and rumbled into space, carrying the European science laboratory Columbus to the International Space Station.