Update on shuttle mission to Hubble / Satellite to track greenhouse gases

     NEWSALERT: Friday, January 23, 2009 @ 2021 GMT
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ONE LAUNCH PAD OR TWO? NO DECISION FOR HUBBLE MISSION
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NASA managers met Thursday and agreed to press ahead with plans to launch
the shuttle Atlantis as early as May 12 on a final mission to service and
upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope. But officials deferred a decision on
whether to require use of launch pad 39B for a potential emergency rescue
mission and what impact that would have on the Ares 1-X test flight
schedule.

 http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts125/090122pads/


JAPAN LAUNCHES SATELLITE TO TRACK GREENHOUSE GASES
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The first satellite devoted to measuring greenhouse gases in Earth's
atmosphere arrived in space Friday after launching from an island
spaceport in southwestern Japan.

 http://spaceflightnow.com/h2a/gosat/


MOST RECENT SHUTTLE CREW PRESENTS ITS MISSION MOVIE
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On cargo-delivery run to the space station in November, shuttle Endeavour
brought up critical equipment that remodeled the interior of the
international outpost in preparation for doubling the size of its resident
crews. The STS-126 astronauts recap their mission in this post-flight
video presentation.

 http://spaceflightnowplus.com/index.php?k=STS-126


HUBBLE SNAPS IMAGE OF A NEBULA WITHIN A CLUSTER
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The Hubble Space Telescope has taken this picture of a unique planetary
nebula nested inside an open star cluster. Both the cluster and the nebula
reside over 10,000 light-years away, in the southern constellation Pyxis.

 http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0901/21hubble/