Weather Outlook Improves for Friday Shuttle Launch
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The weather forecast for Friday&#39;s evening liftoff of the shuttle Atlantis has improved and NASA officials are optimistic launch will take place as planned.
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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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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Sept. 6  /PRNewswire/ -- NASA is targeting a possible launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis on Friday, Sept. 8 because of a problem associated with one of the spacecraft's electricity-producing fuel cells.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. _ With the clock ticking and the launch window closing, NASA will make two last-ditch attempts Friday and Saturday to lift shuttle Atlantis into orbit.   Blastoff is scheduled for 11:41 a.m. EDT Friday from the Kennedy Space Center _ assuming nothing else goes wrong.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - After a three-month delay, NASA entered the final day of a launch countdown for space shuttle Atlantis Thursday with no major technical problems looming and a forecast for promising weather.
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By AP  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.   The countdown clock on Sunday began ticking toward a Wednesday launch of the space shuttle after a week of weather delays kept Atlantis grounded.   The launch time was set for 12:29 p.m. EDT Wednesday.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA managers had their   fingers crossed on Monday in hopes that this week's planned   launch of the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis will go ahead after a   week's delay due to a lightning strike and a storm.
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NASA managers announced Thursday that they would press ahead with the first space shuttle launch of the year next week, three months later than originally planned because of a hail storm that pockmarked the spacecraft's external tank.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA hopes to launch   its December shuttle mission a week earlier than planned to   give its workers time off for the holidays, agency officials   said on Friday.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA planned another attempt to return the space shuttle to Earth on Friday after bad weather in Florida a day earlier kept Atlantis' seven astronauts in space an extra 24 hours.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Preparations for a Friday evening liftoff of the shuttle Atlantis are still on track despite weather forecasts of possible hail in the days leading up to launch.
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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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NASA plans to launch the first shuttle mission of 2007 from the Kennedy Space Center at 7:38 p.m. Friday.
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By AP  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  -- How could NASA improve on a week that saw a successful space shuttle launch against bad-weather odds, the unveiling of an exciting new mission to the moon and a tantalizing discovery on Mars?   With a Nobel Prize, of course. NASA scientist John C.
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NASA planned Tuesday to start a countdown toward the first space shuttle flight of the year as engineers had no major technical problems and the weather forecast looked favorable for a Friday launch.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA will try again on Friday to bring the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis and seven astronauts home after clouds and rain at its Florida landing site prevented a touchdown on Thursday.
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By SETH BORENSTEIN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Stymied once this week because of clouds, NASA is skipping a Friday launch attempt for space shuttle Discovery because of a dismal forecast and is looking toward the weekend.