Something has struck Jupiter / Armstrong marks anniversary in own words

    NEWSALERT: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 @ 1547 GMT
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PICTURES REVEAL SOMETHING HAS STRUCK JUPITER
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Following up on a tip by an amateur astronomer that a new dark "scar" had
suddenly appeared on Jupiter, scientists have found evidence that another
object has indeed bombarded the planet, exactly 15 years after the first
impacts by the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0907/20jupiter/


ASTRONAUT ARMSTRONG MARKS ANNIVERSARY IN OWN WORDS
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The first man on the moon took a moment Monday, on the 40th anniversary of
his "giant leap," to remember the Apollo program and the engineering
triumph that won the Cold War space race and opened the door to the manned
exploration of the solar system.

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A PAIR OF RUSSIAN SPACECRAFT LAUNCHED BY SMALL ROCKET
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A Kosmos 3M rocket boosted a secret Russian military satellite and a
civilian search and rescue spacecraft into orbit early Tuesday from the
Plesetsk Cosmodrome.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0907/21kosmos3m/


JAPANESE EXPERIMENTS REMOVED FROM THE SHUTTLE
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The Endeavour astronauts spent the morning working with the shuttle and
station robot arms, pulling a pallet of Japanese experiments from the
orbiter's payload bay and moving it into position for installation on a
new experiment platform Thursday.

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


SPACEWALKERS UNPACK SPARE PARTS FROM LAUNCH CARRIER
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Endeavour astronauts Dave Wolf and Tom Marshburn, both medical doctors,
took a six-hour, 53-minute spacewalk Monday to unload a pallet of spare
parts for the International Space Station. They delivered a replacement
high-speed communications antenna, cooling system pump and railcar drive
unit for use, if needed, in the future post-shuttle era.

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