Spacecraft visible returning from outer space
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If you go outside early on Wednesday morning you might see an incredible sight - a spacecraft returning from outer space. After a whirlwind tour a million miles from Earth, the Genesis spacecraft is returning.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER HOUSTON - Hours after undocking from the international space station Tuesday, Atlantis' seven astronauts began 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 Roy A. Bahls, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Dec. 15--Weather permitting, local sky watchers are in for some prime viewing of the international space station and space shuttle Discovery as they streak overhead.   Sightings of the ISS and shuttle can be had about 6:04 p.m.
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Picture this: A spaceship swoops in from the void, plunging toward a cloudy planet about the size of Earth. A laser beam lances out from the ship; it probes the planet's clouds, striving to reach the hidden surface below.
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The Atlantis orbiter detaches from the International Space Station for a return to Earth on Thursday.
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NASA -- Catching this week's comet is as easy as flipping the switch on your computer.     As of today, a comet is visible within the live images sent back from a spacecraft stationed one million miles away...
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By AP Wire Service  Video:  NASA Takes Steps to Return to the Moon     WASHINGTON  -- NASA may be going to the moon with a ship that looks a lot like a 1960s Apollo capsule, but the space agency said Monday it's going to do something dramatically different this time: Stay there.
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The shuttle will be chasing the International Space Station across the sky and will be visible to the naked eye if conditions are clear.  It is due to take off later today on an 11-day mission that includes a spacewalk to attack a giant frame for the space station's 80-metre solar panels.
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Several days after space shuttle Discovery arrives at the international space station, some of the lights will go out. Some communications with Mission Control will stop. Backup power will be lost.
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A NASA-led team is studying the construction of a railway in space for a pair of telescopes that will provide views of planet, star, and galaxy formation in unprecedented detail. The proposed Space Infrared Interferometric Telescope (SPIRIT) mission will also examine the atmospheric chemistry of giant planets around other stars.
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HAMPTON -- When the space shuttle Atlantis re-enters Earth's atmosphere at somewhere around Mach 20 today, a small piece of a protective thermal blanket will be held together with surgical staples and metal pins.
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Atlantis returns to Earth after spacewalks and concerns of debris hitting the spacecraft
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By Traci Watson  The astronauts aboard space shuttle Atlantis will search their ship's exterior today for missing pieces of the vehicle after a mysterious object was seen whizzing along near the spacecraft Tuesday.  NASA engineers do not know the object's size or altitude.
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An unidentified object orbiting below and at the same speed as Atlantis may have been shaken loose from the space shuttle, leading NASA officials to scramble to find out whether the vehicle remains safe to make the descent back to Earth.
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The solar particles are sealed inside the Genesis sample return capsule, a disk about the size of a truck tire, that will drift toward Earth&#39;s surface beneath a parachute.
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By Martin Merzer McClatchy Newspapers  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Illuminated by 40 pure-white Xenon spotlights and the golden glare of five powerful rocket engines, shuttle Discovery and its seven astronauts thundered from the launch pad and into space Saturday night.
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The Atlantis shuttle detaches from the International Space Station in preparation to return to Earth.