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Tuesday, May 22, 2012  Private supply ship, SpaceX Dragon, rockets toward space station, opens new era of spaceflight

Friday, July 08, 2011  Updated with full video of launch: "Let's light this fire one more time," Commander Christopher Ferguson said just before taking flight.

Monday, May 16, 2011  Endeavour blasted off on NASA's next-to-last shuttle flight, thundering through clouds into orbit Monday morning as the mission commander's wounded wife, Gabrielle Giffords, watched.

Friday, April 29, 2011  NASA abruptly called off space shuttle Endeavour's final launch Friday because of a puzzling heater failure in a critical power unit.

Monday, April 25, 2011  Rep. Giffords' husband Mark Kelly says she'll attend his Florida space shuttle launch on Friday

Thursday, February 24, 2011  Final voyage: Space shuttle Discovery on way to space station; huge crowds watch last launch

Friday, February 18, 2011  Shuttle Discovery's final launch set for Thursday after 4 month delay, fuel tank cracks fixed