Grueling spacewalk underway / Hubble to look at Jupiter's scar / Shuttle delay

    NEWSALERT: Friday, July 24, 2009 @ 1549 GMT
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SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION VIDEO!
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http://www.spaceflightnowplus.com/index.php?k=STS-127
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STATION TO GET MORE FRESH BATTERIES DURING SPACEWALK
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What's expected to be a grueling spacewalk lasting perhaps
seven-and-a-half hours today, Endeavour astronauts Chris Cassidy and Tom
Marshburn plan to finish the job started Wednesday of replacing batteries
in the International Space Station's oldest power module.

http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts127/status.html


SPACE STATION RESUPPLY SHIP BLASTS OFF
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An unmanned resupply ship for the International Space Station was
successfully launched into orbit today, headed for a docking next week
after the space shuttle Endeavour leaves the outpost.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0907/24progress34p/


HUBBLE TAKES UNPLANNED GLANCE AT JUPITER'S SCAR
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Taking a break from extensive testing following May's shuttle repair
mission, the Hubble Space Telescope was expected to point toward Jupiter
Thursday to take pictures of a dark impact scar that first appeared on the
giant planet last weekend.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0907/24hubble/

SERVICING MISSION ARCHIVE:
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts125/


CHANDRA TELESCOPE MARKS A DECADE OF X-RAY ASTRONOMY
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Astronomers celebrated the 10th birthday of the Chandra X-ray Observatory
on Thursday, a decade after the shuttle Columbia sent the hefty telescope
to a looping orbit high above Earth.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0907/23chandra/


MORE FUEL TANK TESTS WILL DELAY NEXT SHUTTLE LAUNCH
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NASA managers decided Thursday to order another 125 foam "plug-pull" tests
on the external tank scheduled for use by the shuttle Discovery next month
to make sure there are no adhesion problems like those that resulted in
unusual foam shedding during Endeavour's takeoff last week.

http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts127/090723sts128tank/


STATION'S OUTDOOR SCIENCE DECK GETS ITS FIRST PAYLOADS
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Aboard the International Space Station on Thursday, the astronauts used
Japan's robot arm to mount an X-ray astronomy experiment, a communications
relay package and a space environment monitor onto the new external
science facility.

http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts127/090723fd9/index2.html


CIRQUE DU SOLEIL FOUNDER EAGER TO VISIT SPACE STATION
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Guy Laliberte, a former street entertainer who founded the enormously
successful Cirque du Soleil, says he doesn't plan any fire eating or stilt
walking aboard the International Space Station when he visits this fall.

http://spaceflightnow.com/station/exp21/090723crew.html