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NASA has prepared its space shuttle Discovery for blast-off at 11.

NASA have grounded all future shuttle missions until they can find a better way to prevent damage during blast-off

Always calm, he also famously took a nap while waiting for blast-off on the same mission, friends recalled, laughing.

Yesterday's planned second blast-off attempt was scrapped when final checks revealed a piece of foam on the launch pad had broken off from the Ariane 5 rocket's central core, mission scientists said.

But an eleventh-hour disagreement between Nasa and Russian space officials, nearly hampered blast-off.

Their goals range from science to business engineering, from public relations to classified military projects, together creating what could be the busiest blast-off year in NASA's history.

But what they like the best is to blast-off to parties around the world to bring joy and fun to kids of all ages.

A blast-off on Sunday was delayed due to bad weather at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Both the US State Department and the Japanese Government have issued stark statements condemning the blast-off.

Nate Gorman of Las Vegas drops some voodoo on this Peter Hewitt blast-off