NASA asteroid probe launched from Florida
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - A spacecraft that could serve as a model for interplanetary transport blasted off aboard an unmanned Delta rocket on Thursday on a mission to explore two giant asteroids between Mars and Jupiter.
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This summer, NASA will launch a robotic probe to visit two stange and giant asteroids--one is covered with ice while the other may have been blasted by an ancient supernova.  The tales these asteroids tell may reveal the true beginnings of our solar system.
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UK space scientists and engineers design a mission to investigate a potentially hazardous asteroid.
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By ERIC FEBER  by eric feber the virginian-pilot  If the weather holds in Florida and NASA's space shuttle Discovery launches at 9:35 tonight from Cape Canaveral, Hampton Roads residents should be able to track it with their naked eyes.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  - A NASA spacecraft lifted  off on Wednesday on the first leg of a six-month journey to  blast a hole in a comet and study what lies beneath.
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By Martin Merzer, The Miami Herald  Dec. 7--CAPE CANAVERAL -- NASA monitored discouraging weather forecasts but otherwise declared shuttle Discovery ready for tonight's blastoff, the first night launch in four years and one that might be visible from South Florida.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - The space shuttle Discovery landed safely at its Florida home base on Wednesday after a grueling but successful 15-day construction mission that prepared the International Space Station for new laboratories.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - A prototype satellite repair robot that can refuel, upgrade and repair satellites was launched from Florida on Thursday night to begin a three-month orbital field test.
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The planned weekend launch of a spacecraft to explore two of the solar system's largest asteroids was delayed to the middle of the month because of problems with a tracking ship and aircraft.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - Five satellites were launched into space from Florida on Saturday aboard an unmanned Delta rocket to investigate electromagnetic storms, the dark side of the phenomenon that causes Earth's dazzling aurorae.
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An asteroid expected to fly past Earth in 2029 will be visible to the naked eye, scientists projected Thursday.
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Astronomers spotted an asteroid this week after it had flown past Earth on a course that took it so close to the planet it was below the orbits of some satellites.
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NASA launched a $250 million quick-response satellite today to study enigmatic gamma ray flashes from brief-but-titanic deep space explosions that may be the &quot;death
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An asteroid at least 500 feet long will make a rare close pass by Earth next week, but there is no chance of an impact, scientists reported Thursday.
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Tumbling through space like a fumbled football, a peanut-shaped asteroid named 4179 Toutatis is expected to pass within a million miles (1.6 million kilometers) of Earth on Wednesday.
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BOULDER, COLORADO -- Engineers here at Ball Aerospace &amp; Technologies Corporation are readying NASA's Deep Impact mission for shipping this month to Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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A 250m-wide asteroid known as 2007 TU24 is set for a relatively close pass of Earth.