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Peake is set to blast off from Kazakhstan's Baikonur space centre on 15 December and is scheduled to return to Earth in June.
Satoshi Furukawa is set to blast off early on Wednesday for a half-year stint in orbit along with Sergei Volkov, a Russian, and Michael Fossum, an American.
The program -- whose logo is a rocket ship -- is set to "blast off" next month with its first five participants, or "crew members," chosen from among 20 applicants from colleges in the South.
The space shuttle Discovery is set to blast off on Thursday for the embryonic International Space Station, a mission that will represent milestones for both the reusable space plane and its destination.
But if all goes as planned, the youngest of all the Space Shuttles is set to blast off from the Kennedy Space Station for the very last time on April 29th.
It is set to blast off as needed, tentatively scheduled for 2020.
Endeavour and its crew are set to blast off at 7 22 p.m. Friday, but stormy weather could postpone it again.
The mishap occurred only two weeks before astronauts were set to blast off in the space shuttle Atlantis for what is expected to be the last on-orbit maintenance of the telescope.
Weather forecasters were calling for clear skies today for the launch of the space shuttle Discovery, which was set to blast off at 5 38 a.m.
It is there, in the unassuming shops of AMRO Fabricating Corp., that NASA is getting the walls built for its powerful new heavy-lift rocket, called Space Launch System, that's set to blast beyond low-Earth orbit within a few years to explore deep space and send humans to an asteroid and, ultimately, the Red Planet.
