Jamestown Relic on a Modern Ride: A Cargo Tag That Once Crossed the Atlantic Will Fly on Atlantis.
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By Patrick Lynch, Daily Press, Newport News, Va.  Jun. 8--JAMESTOWN -- A relic from the early days of exploration in Virginia is to take a ride into outer space on NASA's space shuttle Atlantis tonight.
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By Martin Merzer, The Miami Herald  Sep. 19--An unexplained object that apparently separated from shuttle Atlantis forced NASA to delay the crew's return to Earth by at least a day, mission managers said today.   The object could be as benign as a piece of ice or a small tool.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  -- After two months of delay, shuttle Atlantis blasted off Thursday with Europe's gift to the international space station, a $2 billion science lab named Columbus that spent years waiting to set sail.
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There may be something almost nostalgic in our celebration of a âheroic explorer.â
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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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An American researcher claimed Sunday to have discovered the remains of the legendary lost city of Atlantis on the bottom of the east Mediterranean Sea.
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Space shuttle Atlantis is due to return to Earth today, but stormy weather could yet delay its landing.
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The great port of Alexandria was a bustling trade hub, a transit point for merchandise from throughout the ancient world &#151; until much of it vanished into the Mediterranean Sea.
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Atlantis returns to Earth after spacewalks and concerns of debris hitting the spacecraft
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SPACE.com / CAPE  CANAVERAL, Fla. - When the space shuttle Atlantis landed on Thursday, you can bet former astronaut Tom Jones was watching.
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NASA could use some good news The scheduled launch of the space shuttle Atlantis (at 23:38pm, GMT) is looking more likely to go ahead as the weather in Florida has slightly improved.â¦
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Shuttle Atlantis docked with the   International Space Station on Monday, and prepared to hand   over a 35,000-pound (15,880-kg) truss for attachment to the   half-finished research outpost.
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Four months of extreme togetherness are coming to a close for a dozen adventurers who've been exploring the Chesapeake Bay much like John Smith did &#151; sailing, and sometimes sleeping, in a replica of his small, open work boat. Their journey was set to end Saturday where it began: Jamestown, America's first permanent English settlement, which Smith helped found 400 years ago.
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The Calayan Rail, Gallirallus calayaensis, discovered by scientists in the northern tip of Babuyan islands in the Philippines archipelago. Photo: Des Allen/AP.
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NEW ORLEANS -- A redesigned 27-ton fuel tank for the space shuttle Discovery is on its way to Cape Canaveral today, traveling by barge across the Gulf of Mexico.
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By Amanda Codispoti, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Dec. 7--Roanokers should be able to look to the sky tonight and see space  shuttle Discovery as it makes its way to the international space station.
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Scientists have been sailing across the Atlantic in a bid to track down sand from the Sahara Desert.