Shuttle heads toward space station rendezvous
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The space shuttle Atlantis winged toward a rendezvous with the International Space Station on Sunday, lugging the heaviest payload ever for the orbital outpost and troubled only by a small tear in a heat-protecting thermal blanket.
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HOUSTON - Astronauts aboard NASA's shuttle Discovery began their first full day in orbit Wednesday with a heat shield inspection as they head toward an orbital rendezvous with the International Space Station (ISS).
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U.S. space shuttle Discovery linked up with the International Space Station on Thursday on a mission to prepare the orbital outpost for new European and Japanese laboratories.
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The US space shuttle Atlantis and its seven member crew, including astronauts from France and Germany, are on a course to dock with the orbiting International Space Station Saturday after 48 hours in space.
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U.S. space shuttle Discovery linked up  with the International Space Station on Thursday on a mission  to prepare the orbital outpost for new European and Japanese  laboratories.
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Shuttle Discovery and its crew of seven thundered into orbit Tuesday, setting off on the most challenging space station construction mission yet that will pave the way for the arrival of two science labs in a few months.
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The U.S. shuttle Atlantis was in orbit Saturday, heading for the International Space Station.
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Astronauts used a robot arm to scan the  space shuttle Discovery's heat shield for damage on Wednesday  as it headed for a Thursday rendezvous with the International  Space Station.
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NASA&#39;s space shuttle Discovery moved a step closer toward launch Monday as engineers worked to join the orbiter with the twin rocket boosters and fuel tank that will aid its flight into space next month.
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HOUSTON  -- Space shuttle Atlantis neared the end of a two-day orbital journey on Saturday, approaching the International Space Station to deliver Europe's first permanent space research laboratory.
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Space Shuttle Discovery closes in on the International Space Station high above the Earth.
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A 27-ton fuel tank is making a five-day voyage across the Gulf of Mexico to NASA&#39;s Kennedy Space Center as the space agency prepares for its first space shuttle flight since the Columbia disaster in 2003.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle Discovery raced toward a rendezvous with the international space station Monday, ready to deliver a new crew member and a 2-ton addition to the space lab.
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The two astronauts aboard the International Space Station moved the Soyuz spacecraft that brought them to the orbiting outpost to prepare for a pair of spacewalks to be conducted next year.
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Atlantis maneuvered toward a rendezvous with the international space station on Saturday, bringing a new $2 billion lab that European scientists can't wait to see installed.
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Two astronauts from the US space shuttle Atlantis stepped out into space Monday on the first walk of the current mission, to prepare the European research laboratory Columbus for hooking up to the International Space Station, NASA said.
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Two US astronauts are set to attach a two-tonne metal segment to the International Space Station during the first of three spacewalks scheduled in the Discovery shuttle mission.