Space shuttle Discovery blasts off from Florida
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - The U.S. space shuttle Discovery blasted off atop a cloud of smoke on Tuesday, soaring above Florida marshlands toward a rendezvous in two days with the International Space Station.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - Seven astronauts boarded space shuttle Discovery on Saturday, hoping for a break in the gusty Florida winds and the start of a complicated mission to rewire the International Space Station.
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By Kurt Loft, Tampa Tribune, Fla.  Dec. 10--CAPE CANAVERAL -- When the shuttle Discovery roared and rumbled into the Florida sky Saturday night, tens of thousands who came to watch stood in silent awe of the fire rising before their eyes.
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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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Shuttle launch tomorrow, weather permitting Space shuttle Atlantis looks good to go for blast-off tomorrow from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, weather permitting.â¦
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The Atlantis shuttle launches successfully on a mission to take Europe's Columbus science lab to the space station.
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By Martin Merzer McClatchy Newspapers  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- 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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After two months of delay, shuttle Atlantis blasted off Thursday on a trip to the International Space Station with a $2 billion science lab named Columbus on board.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla..  - The seven astronauts on the U.S. space shuttle Discovery scrambled aboard their spaceship on Tuesday to await blastoff on a construction mission to the International Space Station.
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The space shuttle  Discovery soared into space on Saturday on a column of fire  that briefly dispelled the darkness over the Kennedy Space  Center in NASA's first night launch since the Columbia  disaster.
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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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By MIKE SCHNEIDER  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle Discovery raced toward a rendezvous with the international space station Monday, ready to deliver a new crew member and a 2-ton addition to the space lab.
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A jumbo jet carrying the space shuttle Atlantis took off Sunday on a return trip to the shuttle's launch site at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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The shuttle blasted off with the rattling roar of more than seven million pounds of thrust into a stunningly clear evening sky on Friday.
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The countdown for Tuesday's launch of the shuttle Discovery on its mission to the orbiting International Space Station began Saturday at 2:00 pm (1800 GMT), said a spokesman for Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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By Mike Schneider  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Discovery lit up the sky late Saturday, blazing off for the first nighttime space shuttle launch in four years - the latest step in NASA's ambitious schedule to complete the international space station.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  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.