LIVE COVERAGE: Spacewalkers to install station's external science deck

    NEWSALERT: Saturday, July 18, 2009 @ 1549 GMT
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CREWS TO INSTALL STATION'S EXTERNAL SCIENCE DECK TODAY
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Astronauts Dave Wolf and Tim Kopra are preparing for a spacewalk today,
the first of five planned by the Endeavour astronauts, to ready an
experiment platform for attachment to the Japanese Kibo laboratory module.
Robot arm operators inside the shuttle and station will work in tandem to
move the science table from the payload bay to Kibo. Watch live video from
orbit in our status center.

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

HEAT SHIELD IN GOOD CONDITION:
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SHUTTLE ENEAVOUR DOCKS WITH THE SPACE STATION
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Endeavour has arrived at the International Space Station for its
construction mission that will install an external science deck to
complete Japan's Kibo facilities, pre-stage critical spare parts for the
outpost and replace aging batteries in the power grid. Friday's docking
occurred a few minutes early at 1:47 p.m. EDT (1747 GMT).

http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts127/090717fd3/index2.html


COMPLETE MISSION VIDEO COVERAGE
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INVESTIGATORS FIND NO ROOT CAUSE FOR TAURUS MISHAP
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Investigators could not find a definitive cause of the February launch
failure that doomed a $273 million environmental satellite, but officials
recommended a series of improvements for the Taurus rocket in a report
released Friday.

http://spaceflightnow.com/taurus/oco/report.html


HISTORIC APOLLO LANDING SITES IMAGED BY NEW LUNAR ORBITER
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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has transmitted the first images in 40
years of the Apollo 11 lunar lander. The LRO spacecraft also imaged four
other Apollo sites showing Grumman lunar module descent stages, and in one
case, a trail of astronaut footprints on the Moon.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0907/17lroapollo/