Nasa names shuttle launch date
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After weeks of delay, space shuttle Atlantis is given a launch date for its next mission.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - The countdown clock began ticking on Tuesday for the planned launch this week of the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis, which will return the beleaguered shuttle program to space after a six-month hiatus.
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NASA will try to launch  the space shuttle Atlantis as early as January 24 on a delayed  mission to deliver Europe's first permanent space laboratory to  the International Space Station, mission managers said on  Thursday.
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Nasa today postponed next month's launch of space shuttle Atlantis after a hailstorm left hundreds of small dents on the spacecraft's external fuel tank.   The launch, which had been set for March 15, was pushed back until at least late April to give Nasa time to make repairs.
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By Martin Merzer, The Miami Herald  Jun. 7--CAPE CANAVERAL -- NASA has declared the shuttle Atlantis ready to launch Friday on the year's first shuttle mission.  "After many months of hard work, Atlantis is ready to fly," NASA test director Steve Payne said Thursday morning.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Sept. 6  /PRNewswire/ -- NASA is targeting a possible launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis on Friday, Sept. 8 because of a problem associated with one of the spacecraft's electricity-producing fuel cells.
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After more than a week of storm delays, NASA may be getting its best shot weather-wise for launching space shuttle Atlantis, officials said Monday. There was only a 20 percent chance that weather would prohibit the shuttle from blasting off at 12:28 p.m. Wednesday as planned, said Kathy Winters, shuttle weather officer.
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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 at 7:38 p.m. EDT on Friday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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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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By MIKE SCHNEIDER  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - After a three-month delay, NASA entered the final day of a launch countdown for space shuttle Atlantis Thursday with no major technical problems looming and a forecast for promising weather.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA restarted its   countdown clocks on Sunday at the Kennedy Space Center for the   launch this week of the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis after a   week's postponement due to a lightning strike and a storm.
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NASA will launch the shuttle Discovery on December 7 on a 12-day mission as the US space agency presses on with construction of the International Space Station, officials said.
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The repair of a landing gear leak on the space shuttle Discovery could put in jeopardy the U.S. spacecraft's October 23 launch date on a construction mission to the International Space Station, NASA said on Monday.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - Space shuttle Atlantis got the go-ahead from NASA on Thursday for a June 8 launch to resume construction of the International Space Station, after a three-month delay to repair hailstone damage.
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NASA, recovering from the four hurricanes that halted work at its Florida spaceport, said on Friday it has set a launch target in May, 2005, for the first space shuttle flight since the 2003 Columbia disaster.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA has decided to go   ahead with Tuesday's launch of space shuttle Discovery on a   mission critical to the spacecraft's future despite finding a   small crack in the foam insulation on the ship's fuel tank, a   NASA official said.
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WASHINGTON -- An astronaut and a four- century-old artifact highlight Virginia's connection to space shuttle Atlantis' upcoming mission to the International Space Station. Atlantis is scheduled for launch June 8 at 7:38 p.m. EDT from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla.