Atlantis Is in Good Shape as Its Crew Goes to Work
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The space shuttle appeared to have made the jump into orbit without any significant damage to its delicate heat shield.
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The space shuttle Atlantis took off on a mission to resume construction of the International Space Station for the first time since the Columbia disaster.
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By Alicia Chang  EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.  --  Atlantis and its seven astronauts took a cross-country detour and landed safely in the Mojave Desert Friday, ending a two-week mission of construction on the international space station and bring a crew member home from the outpost.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - The crew of the newly repaired space shuttle Atlantis arrived at its Florida spaceport on Monday as NASA prepared to launch the ship on a mission to deliver a European space laboratory to the International Space Station.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - The shuttle Atlantis astronauts moved spacesuits onto the International Space Station and packed up old equipment to bring home on Sunday, while scientists prepared for the first experiments in Europe's new Columbus laboratory.
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HOUSTON, Sept. 15 -- After a final six-hour spacewalk Friday, the crew of the space shuttle Atlantis finished building out the expanded solar energy system on the international space station.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Before doing their heavy lifting in space, the astronauts on the shuttle Atlantis did lots of heavy lifting back on Earth.
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Astronauts on shuttle Atlantis  conducted a final inspection of their spacecraft's heat shield  on Monday as they began early preparations for their return to  Earth.
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The crew of the Atlantis began preparations to deorbit and land at Cape Canaveral, after a successful 12-day mission to the International Space Station.
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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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Space shuttle Atlantis began its long  trek home on Tuesday after a nine-day stay at the International  Space Station in which crew members installed new solar energy  panels and battled balky computers.
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With hugs and  handshakes, the shuttle Atlantis astronauts left the space  station crew on Sunday, climbed aboard their ship and fired  steering jets to begin the journey back to Earth.
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Astronauts on the shuttle Atlantis  packed up gear and checked out their spacecraft on Tuesday as  they prepared to come home from their 11-day mission to the  International Space Station.
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By The Associated Press  HOUSTON - Atlantis docked with the International Space Station on Sunday, as engineers continued to review photographs of a section of peeled-back thermal blanket on the space shuttle.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The crew of space shuttle Atlantis took scrupulous notes during two of last year's construction missions at the international space station, because they will be expected to perform some of the same tasks.
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By Juan Lozano The crews of Atlantis and the international space station greeted each other with hugs and handshakes yesterday after the space shuttle arrived at the orbiting outpost.
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The crews of Atlantis and the international space station greeted each other with hugs and handshakes Sunday after the space shuttle arrived at the orbiting outpost.