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NASA sets date for final shuttle mission in 2010

AP - Tue Jul 8, 1:44 PM ET

HOUSTON - NASA has tentatively set the final space shuttle mission for May 31, 2010, four months before the shuttle fleet retires.

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Space shuttle Atlantis lifts off in February 2008, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The final flight in NASA's space shuttle program will take ...

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