NASA basks in shuttle success amid tumultuous year
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The successful shuttle Atlantis mission has finally given NASA something to celebrate this year after being rocked by an astronaut&#39;s arrest and a shooting at its Houston campus.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A patched-up Atlantis blasted off with seven astronauts Friday on the first space shuttle flight of 2007, putting NASA back on track after a run of bad luck and scandal that included a damaging hailstorm and a lurid love triangle.
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Nasa celebrates the first year on Mars of its Spirit rover and says the vehicle can go on working for some time.
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The space shuttle Atlantis returned safely to Earth early this morning, after a 12-day mission that included construction of the international space station for the first time since the loss of the shuttle Columbia in 2003.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A patched-up Atlantis blasted off with seven astronauts Friday on the first space shuttle flight of 2007, putting NASA back on track after a run of bad luck and scandal that included a damaging hailstorm and a lurid love triangle.
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NASA plans to mark the new year with what it considers the most significant milestone yet in the agency&#39;s two-year effort to resume space shuttle missions.
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A patched-up Atlantis blasted off with seven astronauts Friday on the first space shuttle flight of 2007, putting NASA back on track after a run of bad luck and scandal that included a damaging hailstorm and a lurid love triangle.
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CHICAGO -- Astronaut Daniel Tani had hoped to spend Christmas with his family, but that was before fuel tank problems scrapped two scheduled December launches of the space shuttle Atlantis, which would have taken him home from the international space station. Now the launch delay -- until late...
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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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The aerospace unit drives solid results.
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'Substantial progress in the last year'
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - With the successful Wednesday landing of NASA's shuttle Atlantis, the stage is set for a busy year of construction at the International Space Station (ISS).
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By Houston Chronicle  Jun. 23--If overcoming adversity is a criterion for a successful venture into space, the 14-day mission of the shuttle Atlantis to the international space station ranks high on the list of most productive flights.
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When Sean O'Keefe was sworn in as NASA administrator  Dec. 21, 2001, at the top of his agenda was to bring fiscal discipline to a  space agency that had recently allowed a &#36;5 billion surprise to swamp its key  program, an international space station already more than a decade behind  schedule.
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NASA's plan to increase the number of space shuttle flights it launches this year, in an effort to speed up final assembly of the international space station, has stoked concern among independent experts that the space agency is placing scheduling demands on the 27-year-old fleet similar to those...
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Twenty months after the Columbia tragedy, NASA is still struggling to overcome serious engineering hurdles to resume flying its space shuttles in March, a task that has become even tougher
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By Associated Press  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A patched-up Atlantis blasted off with seven astronauts Friday on the first space shuttle flight of 2007, putting NASA back on track after a run of bad luck and scandal that included a damaging hailstorm and a lurid love triangle.