Astronauts Practice March Countdown
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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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Astronauts aboard the shuttle Atlantis today performed a fly-around to get a look at the space station before leaving.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Two U.S. astronauts stepped outside the international space station to carry out a series of maintenance tasks at the orbiting outpost, their third venture out in nine days.Astronauts Michael Lopez-Alegria and Sunita Williams began the spacewalk at 8:26 a.m.
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PARIS - Europe's large unmanned space tug is undergoing final preparations for a maiden flight to the International Space Station sometime between Feb. 22 and March 9, with docking at the station likely to occur during windows of March 15-19 or March 30-April 5, program managers said Tuesday.
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Text of report in English by South Korean news agency Yonhap  SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Yonhap) - South Korea's two astronaut candidates are expected to begin intensive training in March for their historic trip into space, the government said Tuesday.
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HOUSTON Â A pair of spacewalking astronauts will outfit the International Space Station's (ISS) new Columbus laboratory for science Friday when they add new experiments to the module's orbital porch.
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Astronauts entered a newly delivered International Space Station module for the first time Saturday as their colleagues prepared for a second spacewalk of the mission.
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Members of the International Space Station crew have successfully conducted a series of tests in preparation for their historic Thursday spacewalk.
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Smiling and confident, two Russians and an American prepared for their first mission in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft - breaking the nearly 30-year tradition of having at least one crewman with previous experience in piloting the capsule.
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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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Astronauts on the first space shuttle flight since the Columbia tragedy will practice three methods for patching holes in orbit and have another two repair kits on hand in case their ship is actually damaged by launch debris this spring.
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By Houston Chronicle  Feb. 15---- NASA shuttle astronauts traditionally take questions from the news media before their mission countdown begins during a training session at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA started a countdown Tuesday toward the first space shuttle flight of the year. Engineers reported no major technical problems and the weather forecast looked favorable for a Friday launch.The countdown clock began ticking on schedule Tuesday at 9 p.m.
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The crew of space shuttle Endeavour, including teacher-turned-astronaut Barbara Morgan, climbed aboard Thursday in a dress rehearsal for next month's launch.
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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) are preparing their orbital laboratory for a crew swap that will begin with the arrival of three new spaceflyers next month.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER  HOUSTON - Astronauts James Reilly and Danny Olivas were planning to keep their eyes on their gloves today during the first spacewalk of Atlantis' visit to the international space station.
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Two astronauts floated outside the International Space Station on Friday on a spacewalk that began a hectic work schedule to ready the orbital outpost for European and Japanese laboratories.