NASA: Atlantis Cleared for Launch

December 1, 2007 By MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer

(AP) -- NASA has cleared Atlantis for a Thursday launch, one month after the last space shuttle flight and a flurry of work since then getting the international space station ready for a new laboratory.

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