NASA asteroid probe launched from Florida
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - A pioneering spacecraft that could serve as a blueprint for future interplanetary transport blasted off aboard an unmanned Delta rocket on Thursday on a mission to explore two giant asteroids between Mars and Jupiter.
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A science probe making  NASA&#39;s first foray into the asteroid belt missed its summer  launch window, jeopardizing NASA&#39;s first attempt to orbit two  bodies with a single spacecraft, officials said on Sunday.
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An asteroid the size of a large storage shed came within 4,100 miles of Earth this spring, making it the closest near miss ever recorded, US astronomers said this week.
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PASADENA, Calif. - 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 (news - web sites) scientists said.
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A cold front that  spawned killer tornadoes in the southeastern United States is  heading to Florida where it may stall NASA's plans to launch  its first space shuttle mission of the year on Thursday,  officials said on Wednesday.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA is finally ready to fly its first mission of the year, with space shuttle Atlantis and seven astronauts scheduled for liftoff on Friday evening from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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NASA is about to embark on an unprecedented asteroid-belt mission with a spacecraft aptly named Dawn. The 3 billion-mile, eight-year journey to probe the earliest stages of the solar system will begin with liftoff, planned for just after sunrise Thursday. Rain is forecast, however, and could force a delay.
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The asteroid belt&#39;s largest bodies have drifted virtually alone since their creation about 4.5 billion years ago, but each will soon receive a visit from NASA&#39;s Dawn spacecraft.&nbsp;
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - A cold front that spawned killer tornadoes in the southeastern United States is heading to Florida where it may stall NASA's plans to launch its first space shuttle mission of the year on Thursday, officials said on Wednesday.
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There&#39;s a 1-in-300 chance that a recently discovered asteroid, believed to be about 1,300 feet long, could hit Earth in 2029, a NASA scientist said Thursday, but he added
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Image: NASA&#39;s Swift spacecraft lifts off from Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in sunny Florida, on Nov. 20 at 12:16:00.611 pm EST aboard a Boeing Delta II expendable launch vehicle.
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On a quest for the frozen remains of the solar system's formation, NASA is preparing to launch its Deep Impact probe that will smash a hole in a comet 82 million miles from Earth.
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This summer, NASA will launch a robotic probe to visit two stange and giant asteroids--one is covered with ice while the other may have been blasted by an ancient supernova.  The tales these asteroids tell may reveal the true beginnings of our solar system.
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Five satellites were  launched into space from Florida on Saturday aboard an unmanned  Delta rocket to investigate electromagnetic storms, the dark  side of the phenomenon that causes Earth's dazzling aurorae.
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There&#39;s a 1-in-300 chance that a recently discovered asteroid, believed to be about 1,300 feet long, could hit Earth in 2029, a NASA scientist said last week, but he added that
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NASA-funded astronomers are monitoring a Tunguska-sized asteroid that will pass within 30,000 miles of Mars on Jan. 30, 2008.  Based on data currently available, the space rock has a 1-in-75 chance of actually hitting Mars and blasting a crater more than half-a-mile wide.
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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.