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How about this for a mixed bag of space rocket news: The space shuttle Endeavour’s launch was delayed again yesterday – more bad weather. But the company hoping to replace the shuttle when it retires, SpaceX, did manage to successfully hoik a satellite into orbit on their Falcon-1 vehicle. The space shuttle will try again tomorrow, with NASA predicting that the weather in Florida will be kinder to them by then: “The outlook is better on Wednesday, with only a 40 percent chance of weather conditions prohibiting liftoff” (press release). SpaceX, meanwhile, successfully launched their Falcon 1 rocket from the 

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