Leo fails to take off
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According to Martin Scorsese&#39;s long and reverential biopic The Aviator, Howard Hughes was a classic megalomaniac-as-visionary: he was the Citizen Kane of the skies, with ambitions and flaws the size of Xanadu.
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The main oxygen generator on the International Space Station has failed, but NASA said Thursday there is plenty of oxygen on board to sustain the station&#39;s inhabitants for the foreseeable future.
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By SETH BORENSTEIN  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - An electrical problem forced NASA to postpone Wednesday's liftoff of the space shuttle Atlantis yet again, and engineers faced with a tight launch schedule struggled to understand the problem.
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By Frank D. Roylance, The Baltimore Sun  Dec. 12--WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. -- Faulty software and a balky computer on a simulator in New Mexico delayed the launch of two satellites from the NASA Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's Eastern Shore yesterday.
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The far-fetched Billy Bob Thornton vehicle struggles to get off the launchpad.
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Shining brightly in the constellation  Leo is a fast-spinning&nbsp;star that shoots through the cosmos like an  extra-wide&nbsp;bullet, perplexing astronomers as it moves through space in the  same direction as its polar axis.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Clearing skies and diminishing winds raised hopes Saturday that NASA would succeed in its second attempt to get space shuttle Discovery off the ground for the first nighttime launch in four years.
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By SONJA BARISIC  ATLANTIC, Va. - Monday morning's scheduled launch of a rocket carrying satellites for the Air Force and NASA was called off, according to NASA spokesman Keith Koehler.  No other details were immediately available.
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NASA and Orbital Sciences Corp. postponed Tuesday&#39;s launch of a robot spacecraft after the satellite to which it was supposed to attach temporarily lost its global positioning reception.
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Aerial killdroids escape military pilots' union The US Air Force (USAF)'s plan to seize control of almost all American flying killbots has been rebuffed, according to reports.â¦
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A rocket carrying an Israeli spy satellite crashed shortly after liftoff on Monday, officials said. The Defense Ministry blamed a malfunction in the third stage of the rocket, which took off from an air base in Israel.
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NASA&#39;s plan to send a robot into space to repair the ailing Hubble Space Telescope is unlikely to succeed, according to a new report from the National Academy of Sciences.
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HALIFAX (CP) - A Boeing 747 cargo jet that struggled to get in the air before crashing last week was travelling too slow to lift off safely.
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KINDERSLEY, SASK. - A team from Ontario has delayed the launch of its private rocket until at least January. The da Vinci Project had planned to use a gigantic balloon to lift a rocket to 24 kilometres.
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Launch of NASA&#39;s Swift spacecraft has been delayed at least 24 hours due to a concern with Range Command-Receiver Decoder equipment on the launch vehicle.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 - An important test of the United States&#39; fledgling missile defense system ended in failure early Wednesday as an interceptor rocket failed to launch on cue from the Marshall Islands, the Pentagon said.
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By Sonja Barisic  ATLANTIC, Va. - The launch of a rocket carrying two satellites for the Air Force and NASA was scrubbed early Monday because of a problem with the software for one of the satellites, officials said.