Space Shuttle Atlantis Returns
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By Alicia Chang  EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.  --  Atlantis and its seven astronauts took a cross-country detour and landed safely in the Mojave Desert Friday, ending a two-week mission of construction on the international space station and bring a crew member home from the outpost.
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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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Mounted atop a jumbo  jet, U.S. space shuttle Atlantis began a cross-country flight  from California on Sunday, and NASA officials said it should  arrive back home in Florida as early as Monday.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA will try again on Friday to bring the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis and seven astronauts home after bad weather prevented its planned landing in Florida on Thursday.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - After two frustrating weeks of delays, space shuttle Atlantis and its six astronauts blasted off Saturday on a mission to resume construction of the international space station for the first time since the Columbia disaster 3 1/2 years ago.
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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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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - The crew of the newly repaired space shuttle Atlantis arrived at its Florida spaceport on Monday as NASA prepared to launch the ship on a mission to deliver a European space laboratory to the International Space Station.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER HOUSTON - Hours after undocking from the international space station Tuesday, Atlantis' seven astronauts began a final inspection of the space shuttle to make sure its heat shield was ready to re-enter Earth's atmosphere.
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Space shuttle Atlantis is due to return to Earth today, but stormy weather could yet delay its landing.
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The space shuttle Atlantis returned safely to Earth Friday, ending a two-week, five-million-mile mission for its crew of seven.
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By John Johnson Jr. Los Angeles Times  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The shuttle Atlantis, America's long- haul space truck, returned to duty Saturday, blasting into orbit with a 17-ton load of construction material for the International Space Station.
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PHILADELPHIA, June 20  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- If all unfolds as scheduled, when the Space Shuttle Atlantis returns to Earth on Thursday just before 2 p.m. EDT, its wheels will touch down on technology from Rohm and Haas.
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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 headed for home on Wednesday with NASA pushing to get it back to Earth before the U.S. military tries to shoot a dead spy satellite out of the sky.
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NASA Langley Research Center engineers whose work helped determine that a damaged portion of the shuttle needed to be fixed in space welcomed the return to Earth of the Atlantis yesterday.
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Space shuttle Atlantis thundered into orbit Saturday with no obvious damage from debris to worry NASA or the six-member crew as they prepared to resume construction of the international space station for the first time since the 2003 Columbia disaster.
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Shuttle Atlantis undocked from the  International Space Station on Sunday to end a stay in which  the Atlantis crew installed a massive new solar power unit to  resume station construction after a nearly four-year hiatus.