Shuttle cleared for night launch
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Nasa clears the space shuttle Discovery for a rare night launch after bad weather delays the event by a day.
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By JUAN A. LOZANO HOUSTON - Mission managers on Saturday cleared Atlantis to land next week after concluding the space shuttle's heat shield was safe enough to withstand the intense heat of re-entering Earth's atmosphere.
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NASA cleared the Space Shuttle Discovery for its liftoff after engineers resolved technical concerns, but possible clouds and rain threaten to delay the launch.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER   Associated Press writer  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Flashes of flame from space shuttle Discovery lit up the darkened sky Saturday as the spacecraft blazed off the launch pad for the first nighttime liftoff in four years.
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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 has cleared the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis and its seven astronauts for a mission to the International Space Station.  Liftoff is scheduled for June 8 at the Kennedy Space Center, The Miami Herald said Friday.
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HOUSTON, Sept. 11 &#151; The shuttle Atlantis slid gently into place Monday morning at its destination, the International Space Station, clearing the way for construction of the station to begin again.
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Air Force officials on Thursday cleared an experimental satellite for the first rocket launch from the mid-Atlantic region's commercial spaceport, after a software glitch had grounded it. The launch was rescheduled for Saturday.
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NASA on Wednesday  cleared the space shuttle Discovery for launch from Florida on  December 7 on a mission to continue building the International  Space Station, a space agency official said.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA managers on Tuesday cleared space shuttle Atlantis for liftoff in two days on a mission to deliver Europe's first permanent space laboratory to the International Space Station.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA on Wednesday   cleared the space shuttle Atlantis for a return to Earth on   Thursday after inspections found no damage to the spacecraft, a   NASA official said.
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By Martin Merzer, The Miami Herald  Dec. 9--CAPE CANAVERAL -- Its first countdown foiled by low clouds Thursday night, NASA will try again tonight to launch Discovery and its seven astronauts on the last shuttle mission of the year.   Liftoff is scheduled for 8:47 p.m.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA managers cleared space shuttle Discovery for a second launch attempt on Saturday night, but bad weather and work delays on the launch pad could prompt another postponement.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA rescheduled space shuttle Discovery's liftoff for Saturday after thick, low clouds forced a postponement of the first launch attempt on Thursday night.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - Space shuttle Discovery blasted off its seaside launch pad on Saturday, defying the odds of poor weather and ending the ban on night-time flights imposed after the 2003 Columbia disaster.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA mission managers gave a preliminary approval late Tuesday for the planned Dec. 7 launch of the space shuttle Discovery, even as engineers wrangle two issues that came up during routine inspections.
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By SETH BORENSTEIN  HOUSTON - NASA gave space shuttle Atlantis the all-clear to come home Thursday after a stem-to-stern inspection prompted by a mysterious flurry of orbital litter found no damage to the ship.