Space is boring. Why not liven things up a little?
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1. Break the radio and say that while everyone was sleeping there was nuclear
battle and everyone is now dead.
2. Look out the window any scream “We’re being boarded!!”
3. Uncouple the Japanese section, and as they float away helplessly yell
“That’s for Pearl Harbor!!…”
4. Use [...]

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NASA finished fueling the Space Shuttle Atlantis on Monday morning for an afternoon takeoff to the International Space Station, even though cloud cover continues to increase.
Watch the Atlantis launch in real time on our Live Video page.
Weather forecasters now say that the chances of acceptable weather are at about 70 percent, which is not nearly [...]

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NASA again postponed the space shuttle Discovery launch on Wednesday for the second time and will most likely make another attempt on August 28th to begin the mission to the International Space Station.
Watch the launch live to the right on the Blippitt home page.
The liftoff had been scheduled to take place at the Kennedy Space [...]

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The NASA shuttle launch scheduled for Tuesday morning has been postponed due to weather.  NASA will try again to launch the shuttle Discovery to the international space station on Wednesday.
Be sure to catch the shuttle launch live to the right on our homepage.
Thunderstorms developed late Monday night around the launch site, and lightning [...]

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The space shuttle Endeavour landed safety on Friday, having spent 16 days in space. Endeavour landed at 10:48am EDT at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The seven-member crew departed on July 15th after five previous launch attempts were scrubbed due to inclement weather and a few technical issues.
Once Endeavour finally made it to the [...]

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NASA was again forced to postpone the launch of the space shuttle Endeavour on Monday because of bad weather near the Kennedy Space Center.
“The weather has just bitten us again,” launch director Pete Nickolenko told the Endeavour crew.
Endeavour was set to lift off at 6:51pm EDT, prior to the postponement.  It’s mission [...]

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NASA has now rescheduled the launch of the Endeavour space shuttle for 5:40am ET on Wednesday.  NASA also pushed back the launch of a separate lunar mission that was previously scheduled for that day.
The shuttle was originally set to launch this past Saturday, but a hydrogen leak forced the launch to be [...]

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A hydrogen leak has forced NASA to cancel Saturday’s planned launch of the space shuttle Endeavour.
NASA stopped fueling the shuttle Saturday morning after noticing a leak emanating from the hydrogen venting system near the external fuel tank.  That system usually carries hydrogen safely away from the launch pad.
Shuttle managers will meet at 2pm [...]

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After numerous scrapped attempts due to inclement weather, Atlantis experienced a near-perfect space shuttle landing on Sunday morning.
During the voyage, the Atlantis crew likely made their final spacewalk ever from a shuttle airlock.  The shuttle itself also probably flew its final mission to a location other than the International Space Station.
“It was a thrill from [...]

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The countdown is on and all systems are “go” for Space Shuttle Atlantis, which is set to lift off at 2:01pm EDT from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Among other things, this mission will set out to repair portions of the Hubble Space Telescope.
You can watch the liftoff live in the embedded streaming video player [...]

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