The World: Nasa Launch Day
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NASA launches its first space shuttle mission of the year tonight after completing repairs to the spacecraft's external tank caused by a hailstorm.
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NASA has said it is aiming for a mid-May launch of the first shuttle flight since the Columbia tragedy in February 2003. The launch date was the latest of several set by the space agency, and just as subject to change.
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Countdown starts for Atlantis launch    WASHINGTON, June 5 (Xinhua) -- The launch countdown for the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis officially began at 9 p.m. EDT Tuesday (0100 GMT Wednesday), according to NASA TV.
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The US space agency NASA plans to launch an experimental aircraft Monday that it hopes will set a new world record for air speed. If weather permits, an unpiloted wedge-shaped X-43 aircraft
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Since the beginning of the year, NASA has endured an astronaut's arrest in a bizarre love triangle, a workplace murder-suicide and a freak hail storm at the launch pad. What it hasn't had is a space shuttle launch.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  - 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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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - So many satellites. Just one rocket. Five NASA satellites stacked like a wedding cake are set to launch on a single rocket today, part of a mission to figure out the source of powerful geomagnetic substorms in the Earth's atmosphere.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA is watching the weather for Tuesday's planned launch of the space shuttle Discovery.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA is finally ready to fly its first mission of the year, with the space shuttle Atlantis and seven astronauts scheduled for liftoff on Friday evening from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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NASA and its Russian counterpart worked on two minor problems Monday before starting the countdown clock for Thursday night's launch of space shuttle Discovery on a mission to rewire the international space station.
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Swift&#39;s new launch date is Saturday, if NASA, Boeing and the Air Force can replace and test components of the rocket in time. The gamma-ray observatory&#39;s
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA decided on   Thursday to attempt to launch the space shuttle Atlantis on   Friday despite finding a problem with an electricity generator   on the spacecraft two days ago.
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Docking with the ISS today Shuttle blasted off from NASA's Kennedy space centre this weekend, in the first night launch for four years. Discovery was due to take off on Thursday, but was delayed by bad weather.â¦
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The latest launch, set for Friday, brings misty-eyed NASA engineers one step closer to the end of a flight program that's endured for 26 years.
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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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MOSCOW. June 9 (Interfax-AVN) - The U.S. space shuttle Atlantis with seven astronauts onboard blasted off to the International Space Station on Saturday (Moscow time) from Cape Canaveral.  The launch of the shuttle was broadcast live on NASA's website.
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By AP Wire Services  Video:  NASA Readies for a Wednesday Launch     CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  -- After more than a week of storm delays, NASA may be getting its best shot weather-wise for launching space shuttle Atlantis, officials said Monday.