The space shuttle Atlantis and its seven-person crew are slated to return to Earth on Friday, November 27, 2009 after an 11-day mission.
The two chances for a landing at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida will be at 9:44 a.m. and 11:19 a.m. EST.
NASA will analyze weather conditions at the space center before allowing Atlantis [...]

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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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UPDATE: View the Ares 1-X launch video here.
Tuesday morning’s NASA rocket launch of the Ares I-X rocket had to be postponed due to weather, a stuck probe cover, and a surprise cargo ship in the rocket’s “danger zone.”
“We had some opportunities, but just couldn’t get there,” test director Jeff Spaulding said. “Weather didn’t [...]

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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.
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The liftoff had been scheduled to take place at the Kennedy Space [...]

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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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At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the countdown clock is holding at T-9 minutes. This is today’s final built-in hold. Space shuttle Endeavour and a crew of seven astronauts are awaiting liftoff at 6:03pm EDT.
There are no technical issues being reported by the launch team, and weather conditions continue to improve. Storms to the northwest [...]

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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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UPDATE: All live video (including the 11/27/09 Atlantis landing) is now on our Live Video page.
NASA has announced that Friday’s space shuttle landing has been postponed due to inclement weather.
The space shuttle Atlantis was due to land at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center before the long Memorial Day weekend.
NASA will now try for a Saturday landing. [...]

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The space shuttle Discovery touched down safely at Kennedy Space Center at 3:14pm EDT on Saturday, after a 13-day voyage.
NASA had scrubbed an earlier planned landing, citing high winds.
“It was a beautiful landing,” NASA launch manager Leroy Kaine said.  “About the only thing that beats a beautiful orbiter landing like this is [...]

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The space shuttle Discovery is set to lift off from the Kennedy Space Center tonight at 9:20pm EDT.
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NASA scientists had delayed the launch by a month due to small cracks that had been found in the engine compartment’s hydrogen valves. Crews eventually replaced all [...]

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