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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, February 08, 2010  The Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, was scheduled to lift off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, but the launch has been moved to Wednesday.

Thursday, February 04, 2010  The satellite, called the Solar Dynamics Observatory, is designed to help scientists predict solar storms that can disrupt communications and power grids. The CU instrument is called the Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment, or EVE. It will measure changes in the sun's light output.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009  Former astronaut Lisa Nowak pleads guilty, gets 1-year probation in attack on romantic rival