LIVE COVERAGE of today's space shuttle Atlantis launch

    NEWSALERT: Monday, November 16, 2009 @ 1452 GMT
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COMPLETE LIVE COVERAGE OF SPACE SHUTTLE LAUNCH
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Space shuttle Atlantis is targeting a launch from Kennedy Space Center at
2:28 p.m. EST (1928 GMT). You can follow the countdown will play-by-play
updates throughout the day in our Mission Status Center, plus the page
will host our live launch broadcast anchored by Miles O'Brien beginning at
10 a.m. EST.

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

HIGH DEFINITION VIDEO ARCHIVE:
http://www.spaceflightnowplus.com/hd/sts129/


ATLANTIS MISSION TO FORTIFY FUTURE OF THE SPACE STATION
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With the shuttle program entering its final year of operation, engineers
are readying Atlantis for launch Monday on a three-spacewalk mission to
deliver 15 tons of spare parts and equipment to the International Space
Station as a hedge against failures when the shuttle is no longer
available for service calls.

http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts129/091114preview/


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SPIRIT'S ROVING CHANCES BLEAK, NASA FEARS
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The Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Monday will begin commanding the Mars
rover Spirit to start backing out of the sand pit in the same tracks it
left going into the scientifically rich location where it became stuck in
April.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0911/16spirit/


TECHNICAL GLITCH POSTPONES COMMERCIAL ATLAS 5 ROCKET
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Friday night's launch of an Atlas 5 rocket on a commercial mission to
deploy an international telecommunications satellite was scrubbed due to a
technical issue. Liftoff will be delayed at least a few days, clearing the
Eastern Range for Monday's planned liftoff of shuttle Atlantis.

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


SCIENTISTS CONFIRM ABUNDANT WATER IN LUNAR CRATER
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The Centaur rocket stage NASA dispatched on a suicidal plunge into the
moon last month uncovered buckets of water inside a frigidly-cold,
permanently-dark crater at the lunar south pole, scientists announced
Friday.

http://spaceflightnow.com/lcross/091113results/

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