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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Image: NASA&#39;s Swift spacecraft lifts off from Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in sunny Florida, on Nov. 20 at 12:16:00.611 pm EST aboard a Boeing Delta II expendable launch vehicle.
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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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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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NASA has is to send a probe on a collision course with a comet&#39;s nucleus to find out more about the composition and history of the bodies.
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A science probe making  NASA&#39;s first foray into the asteroid belt missed its summer  launch window, jeopardizing NASA&#39;s first attempt to orbit two  bodies with a single spacecraft, officials said on Sunday.
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NASA&#39;s Swift satellite successfully launched today aboard a Boeing Delta 2 rocket at 12:16 pm EST from Launch Complex 17A at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA is finally ready to fly its first mission of the year, with space shuttle Atlantis and seven astronauts scheduled for liftoff on Friday evening from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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com. An asteroid that has a small chance of hitting Earth in the year 2029 was upgraded to an unprecedented level of risk Friday, Dec. 24.
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There&#39;s a one-in-300 chance a recently discovered asteroid, believed to be about 400 metres long, could hit Earth in 2029, a NASA scientist said Thursday.
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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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Visions of a volcanic plume spewing out of Jupiter&#8217;s moon Io and a swirling storm are among the first images returned by a NASA probe as it approached an early-morning swing past the gas giant today.
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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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The space shuttle Atlantis has been successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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NASA this weekend is set to launch a spacecraft that will journey to the asteroid belt that lies between Mars and Jupiter, a mission that involves a rendezvous with two of the solar system's largest asteroids.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER   Associated Press writer  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.
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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.