Discovery Lights Up the Evening Sky ; Launch Marks First Successful Nighttime Liftoff in Four Years
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By Mike Schneider  Flashes of flame from space shuttle Discovery lit up the darkened sky Saturday as the spacecraft blazed off the launch pad for the first nighttime liftoff in four years.
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Space shuttle Discovery  remained on track for a Thursday night liftoff though NASA was  beginning to have some misgivings about an approaching cold  front, officials said on Tuesday.
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A fine display of shooting stars is underway and peaks overnight Wednesday into early Thursday morning. Astronomers expect the 2004 Perseid meteor shower to be one of the best versions of the annual event in several years.
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nick-bts writes &quot;CNN, the BBC and Space.com are reporting the first successful launch of the new Boeing Delta-4 Heavy, capable of lifting 23 tonnes into a low-Earth orbit (similar to the space shuttle).
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For the first time in four years, the next space shuttle launch attempt most likely will be at night, NASA said Thursday.
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NASA readied for a rare night launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery as astronauts boarded amid signs that strong crosswinds were receding.
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A Nasa mission to study the phenomenon known as the northern lights blasts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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The shuttle blasted off with the rattling roar of more than seven million pounds of thrust into a stunningly clear evening sky on Friday.
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Space shuttle Discovery was cleared for Thursday's liftoff after NASA resolved technical concerns, but possible clouds and rain threatened to delay the launch.
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Early this morning, a small flash illuminated the surface of the Moon as the European Space Agencyâs SMART-1 spacecraft impacted onto the lunar soil, in the âLake of Excellenceâ region.
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Over the past week, several independent efforts were made to search for pre-discovery observations of 2004 MN4. These efforts proved successful today when Jeff Larsen and Anne Descour of the Spacewatch Observatory
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By RASHA MADKOUR HOUSTON - Space shuttle Discovery looks to be in good health so far, NASA managers said Sunday, although it will be at least two days before engineers can rule out any possible damage from the program's first night launch in four years.
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By Jim Ellis Associated Press  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Five science satellites blasted off on a single rocket into a golden sunset Saturday on a mission to figure out the source of powerful geomagnetic substorms in the Earth's atmosphere.  The launch at 6:01 p.m.
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Discovery lifted off at 8:47 p.m. EST Saturday from Cape Canaveral in Florida in the first night launch of a space shuttle in four years.  The launch was delayed from Thursday by bad weather.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA planned to try again on Saturday to launch the shuttle Discovery on a mission to rewire the International Space Station, but the weather forecast kept the nighttime launch in doubt.
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Preparations are on schedule for NASA's first nighttime space shuttle launch in four years, managers said Wednesday.
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With the Moon reaching New    phase on Jan. 10 and thus leaving the sky darker, now is an ideal time to get    out your binoculars and explore the profusion of open or galactic star clusters    now evident in our evening sky.