Space Shuttle Cleared to Land Next Week
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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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NASA said it is confident it will be able to launch the space shuttle Atlantis Friday for the first mission of the year, after a launch date three months ago was scrapped due to hail damage.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA managers on   Wednesday cleared space shuttle Atlantis for a Thursday landing   attempt in Florida, confident that unidentified objects spotted   near the spaceship did not result from heat shield or other   critical equipment damage.
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Space debris is nothing new, and the stuff trailing Atlantis is ruled harmless, as the craft is cleared for a Thursday landing
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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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Science & environment: The space shuttle Atlantis was yesterday closing in on the international space station and was expected to dock there last night
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After being delayed twice by technical problems, the space shuttle Atlantis is now slated to liftoff Thursday.
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NASA was optimistic that the Space Shuttle Atlantis would still land as expected on Thursday, after preliminary inspections did not turn up damage from floating debris found near the shuttle.
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The twice-delayed flight of the space shuttle Atlantis, carrying a major addition to the International Space Station, is set for liftoff Thursday.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER HOUSTON - Atlantis was cleared Saturday to return to Earth this coming week after the space shuttle's heat shield was judged capable of surviving the intense heat of re-entry, and a U.S. astronaut reached a milestone with the longest single spaceflight by any woman.
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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 clears shuttle Atlantis to land next week   WASHINGTON, June 16 (Xinhua) -- NASA's Mission Control Center told the Atlantis crew Saturday that space shuttle's thermal protection system is cleared for re-entry.   The astronauts got "the good news" about 11:20 a.m.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - The U.S. space shuttle   Discovery landed safely at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida   on Monday, ending a 13-day mission that may signal NASA's full   recovery from the 2003 Columbia disaster.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA decided on Friday to land the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis at a backup landing site in California after clouds and rain prevented it from landing at its home port in Florida.
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NASA will try to launch  the space shuttle Atlantis on Friday after clearing a technical  problem with a power generator that forced a two-day delay,  officials said on Thursday.
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NASA says it plans a Friday morning launch for Space Shuttle Atlantis at Cape Canaveral, Fla.  The shuttle had been expected to lift-off Wednesday, but a problem in one of the spacecraft's electricity-producing fuel cells resulted in a postponement.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA managers have   cleared space shuttle Atlantis for a launch attempt on   Wednesday after a week's delay due to a lightning strike and a   storm, officials with the U.S. space agency said on Monday.