NASA's lunar launch slips / Atlantis on pad for Hubble mission

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NASA'S ROBOTIC RETURN TO THE MOON DELAYED TO JUNE
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Given the delays of a military mission before NASA's use of the Atlas 5
rocket to dispatch a moon mapper and experimental impact probe, the space
agency has delayed its lunar launch from May to June.

http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av020/090401june.html


ATLANTIS RETURNS TO LAUNCH PAD FOR HUBBLE MISSION
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The space shuttle Atlantis, bolted to a mobile launch platform atop an
Apollo-era crawler-transporter, was hauled to launch pad 39A at the
Kennedy Space Center Tuesday for work to ready the ship for blastoff May
12 on a fifth and final mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.

http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts125/status.html

ROLLOUT PHOTO GALLERY:
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts125/090331rollgallery/


WITH LEAKY VALVE REPLACED, ATLAS READY TO TRY AGAIN
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An Atlas 5 rocket that will deploy a vital new communications satellite to
support U.S military forces in Iraq and Afghanistan is aiming for a Friday
evening launch from Cape Canaveral, now that a leaky liquid oxygen valve
has been replaced.

http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av016/update.html


HUBBLE UNCOVERS UNUSUAL SUPERNOVA PROGENITOR STAR
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has identified a star that was one million
times brighter than the Sun before it exploded as a supernova in 2005.
According to current theories of stellar evolution, the star should not
have self-destructed so early in its life.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0903/31hubble/


AN ERRATIC BLACK HOLE THAT REGULATES ITSELF
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New results from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have made a major
advance in explaining how a special class of black holes may shut off the
high-speed jets they produce. These results suggest that these black holes
have a mechanism for regulating the rate at which they grow.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0903/31blackhole/