Shuttle launch is key for Europe
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Tuesday's shuttle launch marks the beginning of an intense period of space activity for Europe.
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Finally, it was Europe's turn to take a giant leap into an unexplored world. After decades of running third in space headlines behind the U.S. and Soviet-Russian programs, the 15-country ESA last week captured center stage with the successful landing of the Huygens probe on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, after a seven-year voyage.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Feb. 7 -- After two months of delay, the space shuttle Atlantis blasted into orbit 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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The next mission of the space shuttle Discovery set for liftoff Tuesday is critical to building the International Space Station, ferrying in the Harmony module key to installing the European lab Columbus and Japan's Kibo lab.
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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.  There was only a 20 percent chance that weather would prohibit the shuttle from blasting off at 12:28 p.m.
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Europe hopes finally to get its space station laboratory, Columbus, into orbit this Thursday.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - 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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NASA set a tentative date yesterday of Jan. 24 to launch the space shuttle Atlantis, which will carry a long-delayed European space laboratory to the international space station, while saying that additional troubleshooting may be necessary to fix a nagging problem with the external tank's backup...
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By Brian McIver THE world's superpowers have always dominated the space race. But with companies and agencies all rushing to attract tourists and commercial passengers to the heavens, Europe and Britain are now leading the way.
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There have been two important pieces of space-related news recently, the first of which was the European moon probe&#39;s success in entering the moon&#39;s orbit.
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Shuttle Atlantis soared into orbit after a two-month delay on a mission to the International Space Station that will set a milestone for Europe's presence in space.
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Astronauts from Europe and other nations could fly early to the space station on short tours to make ready new laboratories.
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Already a leading launch area for scientific balloons in northern Europe, operations at Sweden's Esrange launch facility will expand next year with NASA's decision to use it for launches of its largest ...
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The European Space Agency says it will have a news conference to highlight present and future European human spaceflight missions.  The Friday news conference will be at the European Astronaut Center in Cologne, Germany.
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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 set February 7 as  the new date for a launch on a space shuttle of Europe's  Columbus laboratory to the International Space Station,  officials said on Thursday.
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Europe's "super rocket" which can lift more than one and heavier satellites into orbit is ready for its first trip into space.