Previous efforts to begin the 16-day mission had been hampered by bad weather and fuel leaks.
The oldest orbiter in the fleet, it had experienced engineering problems before during a long career that begin with the first shuttle mission more than 20 years ago.
U.S. Commerce Secretary William Daley is scheduled to begin a fact-finding mission to the Middle East, to determine how the U.S. can promote trade and commerce to bolster peace process initiated by the Wye accord.
Though Curiosity's primary science mission has yet to begin, the rover, along with probes in orbit, already have transmitted images.
This flight will shortly be followed by another test run to ensure that everything checks out, after which it will begin its first long-duration mission sometime later this month.
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In the absence of such funding, critical war materiel will begin to run short - jeopardizing the mission, and possibly the lives, of our servicemen and women on the front lines.
And those widening gaps, those widening salary differentials, continue to widen because again once you internalise the notion of the higher education project being about private return for private investment then obviously individual members of the faculty begin thinking to themselves and understanding their mission in private rather than public ways.
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An EU mission to train Malian soldiers is due to begin as part of efforts to help the West African country counter an Islamist insurgency.
And part of the mission and part of the strategy is to begin this drawdown as we transfer responsibility, security lead, over to the Afghan national security forces.
Dr Boss estimates that Nasa's Kepler mission, due for launch in March, should begin finding some of these Earth-like planets within the next few years.
It is simply irresponsible for President Clinton in a non- emergency situation and in the face of the expressed opposition of Congress to implicate the United States in such a "peace enforcement" mission -- the predictable effect of his decision to begin the immediate deployment of small numbers of American service personnel to Bosnia.
Mission informed reporters early Tuesday that the closed-door meeting will begin at 9 a.m.
The team is now on a mission to sign up over 100 musicians, including street musicians, before the Super Bowl festivities begin, and will be distributing QR codes to musicians anywhere.
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History the shared mission, hardly 100 yards separating the sides, brothers-in-arms bristling for the battle to begin.
The mission -- called MAST (for Multi-Application Survivable Tether) -- is scheduled to begin April 17th with a payload launch on a Dnepr rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, after which the Washington state-based Tethers Unlimited's two anchor sats (less-cleverly dubbed Ted and Ralph -- um, hello, Penny and Brain...) will gradually separate until they've pulled the kilometer-long line taut.
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