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The launch was one of several planned this year to test new space vehicles, officials said.

 BREAKING STORIES

NASA adjusts launch dates

NASA 2009 scholarship program opens

ESA prepares GOCE for next week's launch

NASA TV to show ISS cargo ship arrival

NASA creates Carl Sagan fellowships

Canadian astronaut to head space agency

Scientists analyze deepest Mars soil yet

N. Korea touts rocket launch anniversary

Astronomers look for Ramadan moon

NASA chief: Can shuttle fly after 2010?

Russia launches five satellites into orbit

NASA wants students to choose sciences

NASA rover ready to leave Victoria Crater

NASA renames observatory for Fermi

Satellite shooting unneeded says scientist

Spitzer Space Telescope is 5 years old

ESA to launch complicated mission Sept. 10

NASA investigates failed rocket launch

Greenland glaciers still disintegrating

Kennedy Space Center reopening delayed