Atlas 5 launch a success / Atlantis mission continues well

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ATLAS 5 LAUNCHES INTELSAT COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE
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An international telecommunications satellite that will bridge the
Atlantic with a broad reach to four continents was successfully hauled
into orbit today aboard an Atlas 5 rocket that completed its last purely
commercial launch for the foreseeable future. Liftoff came at 1:55 a.m.
EST from Cape Canaveral.

http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av024/status.html

PHOTO GALLERY: LAUNCH PAD CAMERAS
http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av024/launch/

PHOTO GALLERY: PRESS SITE
http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av024/press/


RELIVING SHUTTLE ATLANTIS' BEAUTIFUL AFTERNOON ASCENT
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Onboard rocket camera footage always dazzles and the video from shuttle
Atlantis' external fuel tank and solid boosters didn't disappoint. The
inspiring views of the spacecraft rocketing toward orbit are presented
here for Spaceflight Now+Plus users with launch audio.

http://spaceflightnowplus.com/index.php?k=STS-129&s=date


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THIRD AND FINAL SPACEWALK OF THE SHUTTLE ATLANTIS FLIGHT
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Astronauts Bobby Satcher and Randy Bresnik took a five-hour, 42-minute
spacewalk today to install an oxygen tank on the International Space
Station's Quest airlock module, set up a materials science space exposure
experiment and carry out a variety of station assembly get-ahead tasks.

http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts129/status.html


ATLANTIS ASTRONAUT'S WIFE DELIVERS A BABY GIRL
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Astronaut Randy Bresnik carried out a spacewalk Saturday awaiting word of
the birth of his second child. Responding to a wake-up call from Houston
early Sunday, he delivered the news that his wife Rebecca had given birth,
saying "good morning, Houston. Good morning, Rebecca, good morning, Wyatt,
and good morning to our little girl."

http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts129/091122fd7/index.html


ASTRONAUTS PERFORM MISSION'S SECOND SPACEWALK
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Space shuttle Atlantis crew members Mike Foreman and Randy Bresnik
completed a six-hour spacewalk Saturday that installed an experimental
communications antenna package and wireless video relay, moved a
measurement probe, deployed two external payload attachment fixtures for
future use, plus a few other odds and ends. One final EVA of the mission
is planned for Monday.

http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts129/091121fd6/index2.html


MANAGER ENCOURAGED BY ATTEMPTS TO MOVE SPIRIT
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The first two attempts to dislodge the stuck Spirit rover from a
calamitous Martian sand pit yielded little progress, but the mission's
project manager said he is encouraged the wheeled robot even moved at all.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0911/21spirit/

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