Shuttle blasts off in 1st flight of '07
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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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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The six crew members of space shuttle Atlantis strapped into the spacecraft and ran through a practice countdown Friday in preparation for the program's first launch of the year next month. "It went seamlessly," NASA spokesman Bill Johnson said.
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The newly overhauled space shuttle  Endeavour was rolled out to a seaside launch pad in Florida on  Wednesday to be prepared for its first mission in nearly five  years.
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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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The seven-man crew  assigned to the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis&#39; upcoming mission  to the International Space Station arrived at the Kennedy Space  Center on Monday in preparation for Friday&#39;s planned liftoff.
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By Martin Merzer, The Miami Herald  Dec. 7--CAPE CANAVERAL -- Despite gathering clouds and discouraging weather forecasts, NASA technicians fueled shuttle Discovery this afternoon and the seven astronauts prepared for tonight's blastoff.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Discovery and a crew of seven rocketed into orbit Tuesday in pursuit of the international space station, where a formidable construction job awaits them.
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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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The US space shuttle Atlantis headed for the International Space Station early Saturday on this year&#39;s first mission, aimed at boosting the station&#39;s power-generating capacity.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - The U.S. space shuttle Atlantis was rolled out to its seaside launch pad on Thursday in preparation for a planned liftoff in March on the first of five missions NASA hopes to fly this year.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA resolved lingering concerns about lines connecting the external fuel tank to Atlantis on Wednesday and moved ahead with preparations for the first space shuttle launch of the year.
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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, Fla. - NASA mission managers gave a preliminary approval late Tuesday for the planned Dec. 7 launch of the space shuttle Discovery, even as engineers wrangle two issues that came up during routine inspections.
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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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Final preparations were under way Friday for the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis for the first mission of the year, with weather conditions looking good for a blastoff to the International Space Station.
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NASA said Friday that all systems on the space shuttle Atlantis were functioning and the craft was ready for liftoff near Cape Canaveral, Fla.  The process of filling the external orange fuel tank of the shuttle, which is scheduled to launch at 11:41 a.m.
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EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, California  - The U.S. space shuttle Atlantis fired its rockets to break orbit on Friday and begin a fiery descent through the Earth's atmosphere for a landing in California.