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    NASA pulls injured astronaut off upcoming flight of space shuttle Discovery, adds new crewman

    An astronaut who crashed his bicycle last weekend won't be taking part in space shuttle Discovery's final voyage next month.Astronaut Timothy Kopra suffered unspecified injuries in the accident Saturday, just 1½ months before Discovery's planned liftoff. He is recuperating and on indefinite sick leave.In a rare swap-out Wednesday, NASA removed Kopra from the crew and added veteran spaceman Stephen Bowen, who flew last May on the most recent shuttle flight. Bowen will take over Kopra's spacewalking duties during the 11-day flight. Kopra had been designated as the lead spacewalker and was to venture out twice to perform work on the International Space Station.The shuttle flight has been on hold since November because of fuel tank cracks. Just last week, NASA said it had finally zeroed in on a cause for the potentially dangerous cracking. Shuttle repair work is continuing; Discovery's target launch date is Feb. 24.This is the second time this month that NASA had had to deal with crew issu...

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    1. Astronauts Capture Space in a Bottle

      Two astronauts drifting 220 miles above the blue and white blob of planet Earth Monday collected an unusual souvenir: a bottle full of space.Spacewalkers Stephen Bow...

    2. Space Shuttle Atlantis Fueling For Final Spaceflight

      CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA is fueling the space shuttle Atlantis for its final planned spaceflight today to cap off a 25-year career of flying in space.The orbiter ...

    3. Shuttle Atlantis Prepares for Landing

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    4. Shuttle Atlantis Touches Down at Kennedy Space Center

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    5. Discovery's Final Liftoff

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    7. Astronauts Attach New Russian Science Module to Space Station

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    8. Despite Leaky Spacesuit, Discovery Astronaut's Take One Final Spacewalk

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    12. Astronaut who lost tool bag admits making mistake

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    2. Obama to NASA : Show Me the Robot

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    4. Space Shuttle Discovery Fueled for Tonight's Final Flight

      NASA's most traveled space shuttle, Discovery, was fueled Thursday for its final voyage after nearly three decades of service.NASA finished pumping hundreds of thous...

    5. Six-man, all-veteran crew on space shuttle Atlantis' final flight, saving nostalgia for later

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    6. Tension in Space on Discovery Astronauts' First Spacewalk

      With the Earth spinning some 220 miles beneath them, two astronauts strolled from space shuttle Discovery -- and into the cold vacuum of space outside the Internatio...

    7. Spacewalk Hit by Brief Power Outage

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