Canadian Astronaut Steve MacLean Heads Back to Earth Aboard Atlantis
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  - Space shuttle Atlantis pulled away from the international space station on Sunday for a return trip to Earth.
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A Soyuz craft carrying two Russian cosmonauts and Malaysia's first space traveler left its docking port at the international space station on Sunday, starting a return trip to Earth, footage from Russian mission control showed.
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Atlantis and its seven astronauts returned to Earth safely yesterday, ending a two-week mission to deliver an addition to the International Space Station and bring a crew member home.  Atlantis crossed the Pacific and glided to a stop at 12:49 p.m.
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Seven astronauts returned to NASA's launch site Monday to take a new shot at flying space shuttle Atlantis to the international space station.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA declared that it's back in the space-station assembly business Thursday after shuttle Atlantis and its six astronauts safely returned from a 12-day mission to install a big new piece of the orbiting outpost. "It was a great team effort.
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  NASA declared that it's back in the space- station assembly business Thursday after shuttle Atlantis and its six astronauts safely returned from a 12-day mission to install a new piece of the orbiting outpost.
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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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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA cleared space   shuttle Atlantis to return to Earth on Thursday, confident that   unidentified objects spotted floating near the spaceship did   not result from damage to its heat shield or other critical   equipment.
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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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American astronaut Mike Fincke and Russian commander Gennady Padalka descended to Earth in remote Kazakstan late Saturday aboard a Soyuz space capsule.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - The crew of the newly repaired space shuttle Atlantis arrived at its Florida spaceport on Monday as NASA prepared to launch the ship on a mission to deliver a European space laboratory to the International Space Station.
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Malaysia's first astronaut landed safely  back in Kazakhstan to a hero's welcome on Sunday with two  Russian cosmonauts after spending 11 days in space, officials  at Moscow's mission control said.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - The crew of the U.S.   space shuttle Atlantis returned to Florida on Saturday to   prepare for a new launch attempt on NASA's first International   Space Station assembly mission in nearly four years.
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Hours after undocking from the international space station Tuesday, Atlantis' seven astronauts finished a final inspection of the space shuttle to make sure its heat shield was ready to re-enter Earth's atmosphere.
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By Alicia Chang, Associated Press  EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE -- Atlantis and its seven astronauts returned to Earth safely Friday, ending a two-week mission to deliver an addition to the international space station and bring a crew member home from the outpost.
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NASA Langley Research Center engineers whose work helped determine that a damaged portion of the shuttle needed to be fixed in space welcomed the return to Earth of the Atlantis yesterday.
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The first Malaysian astronaut in space returns safely to Earth from the International Space Station.