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A Nasa spacecraft set for launch early next month will explore the two biggest asteroids in the Solar System.
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com Staff. NASA once again postponed the launch of the Demonstration of Autonomous Rendezvous Technology (DART) spacecraft Thursday due to the discovery of contamination inside the fairing of its Pegasus launch vehicle.
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NASA will delay the first manned flight of the new spacecraft designed to take humans back to the moon because of budget constraints, the agency's boss said Wednesday. The craft, called the Orion, won't fly until early 2015, four to six months later than planned, NASA administrator Michael Griffin told lawmakers.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA on Thursday delayed for a day the landing of the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis because of bad weather in Florida.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -NASA on Tuesday postponed next month's launch of space shuttle Atlantis after a hail storm left hundreds of small dents on  the spacecraft's external fuel tank and on a wing.
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Not much va-va-voom, but very economical NASA has confirmed that the "Dawn" space probe to the asteroid belt will indeed launch on Saturday, ending speculation that the mission might be delayed.â¦
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By Frank D. Roylance, The Baltimore Sun  Dec. 12--WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. -- Faulty software and a balky computer on a simulator in New Mexico delayed the launch of two satellites from the NASA Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's Eastern Shore yesterday.
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For the third time in two days, NASA postponed the launch of its asteroid-bound Dawn probe Saturday, with liftoff now slated for no earlier than September.
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The US space agency said it has once again delayed the launch of the US space shuttle Atlantis that is to carry a European space laboratory to the International Space Station.
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The craft that is to replace the space shuttle could be delayed because of recent budget reductions, the NASA administrator said.
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An asteroid may come uncomfortably close to Earth in 2036 and the United Nations should assume responsibility for a space mission to deflect it, a group of astronauts, engineers and scientists said on Saturday.
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Additional observations have ruled out the chance that a recently discovered asteroid, believed to be about 1,300 feet long, could hit Earth in 2029, NASA scientists said.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER   Associated Press writer  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  -- Low clouds forced NASA to delay the launch of space shuttle Discovery late Thursday, and a forecast for strong winds prompted the space agency to postpone another attempt by at least two days.
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By KASIE HUNT  WASHINGTON - NASA will delay the first manned flight of the new spacecraft designed to take humans back to the moon because of budget constraints, the agency's boss said Wednesday.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - Bad weather forced NASA on Thursday to delay bringing the space shuttle Atlantis back to Earth at least until Friday, the U.S. space agency said.
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A Russian-built cargo spacecraft, Progress 16, had been scheduled to deliver fresh food, water and other supplies to the ISS last month, but the mission was delayed until late December.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - A long-delayed and nearly canceled upgrade to the Hubble Space Telescope will have to wait until NASA completes delivery of three modules to the International Space Station, officials said on Tuesday.