"This Week In Space" returns / Get to know Atlantis' astronauts

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THIS WEEK IN SPACE
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Counting down to the last scheduled launch of shuttle Atlantis, a space
robot race between the U.S. and Japan, plans to bring a piece of Mars to
Earth, and attack of the Zombie Sat!

http://spaceflightnow.com/twis/


SHUTTLE ATLANTIS CREW IS SIX HUMOROUS ASTRONAUTS
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The six jovial guys who will take space shuttle Atlantis on the orbiter's
final scheduled voyage are an entertaining bunch and having fun is one
their mission priorities.

http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts132/100510crew/

The crew arrived at launch site last night:
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts132/status.html


STS-132 VIDEO ARCHIVE:
http://spaceflightnowplus.com/index.php?k=STS-132&s=date

HIGH DEFINITION VIDEO COVERAGE:
http://spaceflightnowplus.com/hd/sts132/


VENUS PROBE AND SOLAR SAIL JOIN H-2A ROCKET FOR LAUNCH
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An interplanetary weather satellite bound for Venus and a device to test
new propulsion techniques were trucked across Japan's island space center
Sunday to meet the H-2A rocket that will launch the payloads into space
next week.

http://spaceflightnow.com/h2a/akatsuki/100510vab/


FIRST SOYUZ ROCKETS PUT TOGETHER IN SOUTH AMERICA
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After unpacking two Soyuz rockets from shipping crates, Russian workers at
the Guiana Space Center are testing and assembling the boosters before
moving the vehicle to the launch pad this summer.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1005/10soyuz/


NASA TESTS LAUNCH ABORT SYSTEM FOR SPACE CAPSULES
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In a spectacular $220 million test, NASA fired a new astronaut escape
system rocket in New Mexico Thursday, boosting a dummy crew module more
than a mile up in just 20 seconds to demonstrate how a future manned
spacecraft could be pulled to safety in the event of a catastrophic on-pad
rocket failure.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1005/06padabort1/

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