Comet-bound probe to receive slingshot from Earth this weekend

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COMET-BOUND PROBE NEEDS EARTH TO SHAPE ITS TRAJECTORY
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The NASA spacecraft made famous for firing a projectile into a comet five
years ago is speeding back toward Earth to receive a critical boost Sunday
that will send the satellite to another cometary rendezvous this November.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1006/24epoxi/


STUDY SUGGESTS WATER WAS A GLOBAL OCCURRENCE ON MARS
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Two probes circling the Red Planet have discovered evidence that water was
once present in the northern hemisphere of Mars, a sign the planet's
entire surface may have been habitable billions of years ago.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1006/24marswater/


NASA BEGINS REVIEW OF SHUTTLE LAUNCH DATE CHANGES
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NASA managers Tuesday asked shuttle engineers to assess retargeting the
final two space shuttle missions, moving launch of a mid-September flight
with Discovery to Oct. 29 and a late November flight by Endeavour to Feb.
28. The changes would give engineers more time to optimize payloads bound
for the International Space Station and avoid launch conflicts with other
flights to the lab complex.

http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/100622dates/


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