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STS-125 Final Shuttle Mission to Hubble Takes Off

STS-125 Final Shuttle Mission to Hubble Takes Off

The space shuttle Atlantis has begun the final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. Launched at 2:01 EDT on May 11 from Kennedy Space Center’s launch pad 39A, the mission is scheduled to last 11 days concluding in a ...

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STS-119 Launches into Space…Finally

STS-119 Launches into Space…Finally

After several delays, including twice over the past week, the space shuttle Discovery has finally been launched into space. The spacecraft took off at precisely 7:43 p.m. EDT, embarking on the STS-119 mission, which will provide the International Space Station ...

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The Sky is Falling or Much Ado About Nothing

On March 24th the World Wide Web was flooded with a photograph of a large spherical object, which reportedly had fallen from the sky, landing in a farming area in central Brazil. The story was first published by Daniel Drehmer, ...

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STS-122 Atlantis Mission Takes Off

STS-122 Atlantis Mission Takes Off

At approximately 2:47 p.m. EST the space shuttle “Atlantis” successfully lifted off the ground from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. About two months after the shuttle’s original launch date, after which liftoff was delayed a number of times, NASA ...

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Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-117 Launched

Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-117 Launched

A successful lift-off of the space shuttle Atlantis took place on 23:38:04 UTC on June 8th, 2007 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Atlantis took off after a long delay due to damage from a hail storm earlier this ...

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Nighttime Blast off for Space Shuttle

Following postponement of the earlier launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery days ago due to local cloudy conditions, the seven member astronaut crew of STS mission 116 blasted off from Kennedy Space Center at 8:47 p.m. EST Saturday night December ...

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STS-115 Atlantis Mission

STS-115 Atlantis Mission

Space Shuttle Atlantis – This overhead image of the Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-115 was recorded by a crew member onboard the International Space Station. The cargo bay of the shuttle, which will later be used to resume the construction of ...

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STS-121 Discovery Launch

STS-121 Discovery Launch

Space Shuttle Discovery launch – mission STS-121 – was the third launch attempt in four days after previous ones were scrubbed due to weather concerns. Liftoff was on-time at 2:38 p.m. EDT on July 4th, 2006. The Orbital Insertion Altitude ...

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