'Atlantis' Cleared to Return to Earth This Week ; SHUTTLE
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'Atlantis' was cleared yesterday to return to Earth on Thursday, with the shuttle's heat shield judged capable of surviving re- entry. This will be the longest single spaceflight by a woman - Sunita WIlliams has already broken the record for the longest space walk by a woman.
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The space shuttle Atlantis returned safely to Earth early this morning, after a 12-day mission that included construction of the international space station for the first time since the loss of the shuttle Columbia in 2003.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA managers on Wednesday left open the possibility that space shuttle Atlantis would blast off this week on a mission to resume construction of the international space station.
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Atlantis was cleared Saturday to return to Earth this coming week after the space shuttle's heat shield was judged capable of surviving the intense heat of re-entry, and a U.S. astronaut reached a milestone with the longest single spaceflight by any woman.
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NASA scientists readied space shuttle Atlantis for a piggy-backed ride atop a Boeing 747 airplane this week to the Kennedy Space Center. That journey will cap shuttle's STS-117 mission that officially ended Friday when it landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
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HOUSTON, Sept. 11 &#151; The shuttle Atlantis slid gently into place Monday morning at its destination, the International Space Station, clearing the way for construction of the station to begin again.
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By Martin Merzer, The Miami Herald  Jun. 21--Mission managers declared shuttle Atlantis fit to return to Earth on Thursday, but a higher authority -- nature -- might give the seven astronauts an extra day in space.
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Urgent: NASA decides to return Atlantis to launch pad    WASHINGTON, Aug.
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HOUSTON -- NASA mission managers cleared the space shuttle Atlantis for its planned landing next week after finding its protective heat shield sound for the plunge through Earth&#39;s atmosphere.
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NASA will try again on  Friday to bring the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis and seven  astronauts home after bad weather prevented its planned landing  in Florida on Thursday.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER "Suni" Williams breaks a 1996 record for time on a space flight by a woman.  HOUSTON -- Atlantis was cleared Saturday to return to Earth this coming week after the space shuttle's heat shield was judged capable of surviving the intense heat of re-entry, and a U.S.
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Nasa clears the shuttle Atlantis for a return to Earth, after inspections find no damage from orbiting debris.
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Weather forecasts were not encouraging,  but space shuttle Atlantis was scheduled to return to Earth on  Thursday in an afternoon landing at Kennedy Space Center in  Florida.
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By Seth Borenstein Associated Press  HOUSTON -- NASA gave space shuttle Atlantis the all-clear to come home today after a stem-to-stern inspection prompted by a mysterious flurry of orbital litter found no damage to the ship.
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NASA clears shuttle Atlantis to land next week   WASHINGTON, June 16 (Xinhua) -- NASA's Mission Control Center told the Atlantis crew Saturday that space shuttle's thermal protection system is cleared for re-entry.   The astronauts got "the good news" about 11:20 a.m.
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After being delayed twice by technical problems, the space shuttle Atlantis is now slated to liftoff Thursday.
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Atlantis astronauts will inspect the space shuttle once more before its scheduled return to Earth Thursday, after a mysterious object was spotted orbiting nearby, NASA said.