Shuttle back on Earth after mission
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - The U.S. space shuttle   Atlantis returned safely to its Florida home port on Thursday,   capping a successful mission to resume International Space   Station construction after the 2003 Columbia accident.
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Space shuttle Atlantis undocked from the International Space Station, ending its 10-day mission and starting its journey back to Earth.  Springs pushed the shuttle from the space station at 10:42 a.m. EDT Tuesday before the shuttle fired its steering jets.
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Space  shuttle Atlantis landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California  on Friday after a fiery descent through the Earth&#39;s atmosphere  that capped a two-week mission to the International Space  Station.
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The Discovery space shuttle undocked from the International Space Station to begin its journey back to Earth after an eight day construction visit.
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NASA gave space shuttle Atlantis the all-clear to come home Thursday after a stem-to-stern inspection prompted by a mysterious flurry of orbital litter found no damage to the ship.
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The space shuttle Atlantis is moved back to its hanger to repair hailstorm damage sustained last week.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - Shuttle Atlantis started for home on Tuesday, leaving the International Space Station with new solar power wings, a fresh crew member and a mystery over what knocked out the space station's computers.
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Space shuttle Discovery and its crew of six returned to Earth through thick clouds Monday, ending an impressive mission that put NASA&#039;s space program back on a solid, safer course.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - The U.S. space shuttle Atlantis docked at the International Space Station on Sunday to resume construction of the outpost and deliver a new crew member.
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Space shuttle Atlantis has made a pre-dawn landing here after a successful 12-day construction mission to the orbiting International Space Station.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - The U.S. space shuttle Atlantis blasted off on a construction mission to the International Space Station on Friday, ending a three-month grounding to repair the ship's hail-battered fuel tank.
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NASA declared that it's back in the space-station assembly business Thursday after shuttle Atlantis and its six astronauts safely returned from a 12-day mission to install a big new piece of the orbiting outpost.
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By JUAN A. LOZANO HOUSTON - Mission managers on Saturday cleared Atlantis to land next week after concluding the space shuttle's heat shield was safe enough to withstand the intense heat of re-entering Earth's atmosphere.
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By SETH BORENSTEIN  HOUSTON - NASA gave space shuttle Atlantis the all-clear to come home Thursday after a stem-to-stern inspection prompted by a mysterious flurry of orbital litter found no damage to the ship.
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SPACE.com / CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. &#8211; Six astronauts and their shuttle Atlantis are safely back on Earth after returning NASA and its partners on a path to complete the International Space Station (ISS).
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The Atlantis orbiter is set to return to Earth after installing Europe's Columbus science lab on the space station.
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By JUAN A. LOZANO HOUSTON - A revived set of crucial computers aboard the international space station appeared to pass one more test Monday, making it likely that space shuttle Atlantis will return home later this week.