'Jules Verne' fuelled for launch
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Europe's ATV space truck has been cleared for fuelling, to make it ready for launch towards the end of February.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla - For the first time in more than four years, a NASA space shuttle Discovery is poised to light up the night sky in an evening launch bound for the International Space Station (ISS). But weather may intervene.
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A team of entrepreneurs will try to blast a rocket plane into space Wednesday in the first of two flights required to win the Ansari X Prize, a $10 million award aiming to boost commercial space travel.
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Technicians began  filling shuttle Discovery's fuel tank for a launch attempt at  11:38 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, officials said.
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An inflatable spacecraft designed as part of a project to put a hotel in space has successfully entered Earth's orbit.
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Richard Branson, Britain&#39;s best-known entrepreneur and part-time daredevil, plans to launch the world&#39;s first passenger service to space in 2007, offering zero-gravity flights for 110,000 pounds ($198,600).
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By Martin Merzer, The Miami Herald  Dec. 9--CAPE CANAVERAL -- Overcoming a technical delay but still concerned about the weather, NASA this afternoon fueled shuttle Discovery for tonight's second attempt to launch the spaceship and its seven astronauts.
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By Martin MerzerCAPE CANAVERAL -- Illuminated by 40 pure-white Xenon spotlights and the golden glare of five powerful rocket engines, shuttle Discovery and its seven astronauts thundered from the launch pad and into space Saturday night.
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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.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA fueled the space   shuttle Atlantis for launch from Florida on Friday but a   problem with a sensor in the spacecraft's external fuel tank   may prompt another delay, officials said.
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Ordinary people are being given the chance to have their name go into space with the first X-Prize contender craft.
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Preparations are on track for Friday&#39;s evening launch of the  space shuttle Atlantis from Florida,  despite a small chance of a scrub due to weather.
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The U.S. team that took the first  privately funded, manned ship into space makes a bid to capture  a $10 million prize this week -- signaling that commercial  space travel has nearly arrived.
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The Cosmos 1 team announced today that the worldâs first solar sail spacecraft will be set for launch on March 1, 2005 from a submerged submarine in the Barents Sea.
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NASA prepared to launch  the space shuttle Atlantis on Thursday on a mission to deliver  Europe's first permanent space laboratory to the International  Space Station.
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The shuttle Discovery is ready to roar, but poor weather might keep it on the ground today.
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NASA decided to try to launch the space shuttle Atlantis on Wednesday, after a delay caused by a lightning strike and the threat of bad weather.