Soyuz lands safely / Falcon 9 still aiming for Friday launch

      NEWSALERT: Wednesday, June 2, 2010 @ 1718 GMT
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SOYUZ BRINGS INTERNATIONAL CREW BACK TO EARTH
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The Soyuz TMA-17 crew capsule, carrying outgoing space station commander
Oleg Kotov, Timothy Creamer and Soichi Noguchi, settled to a safe
parachute-and-rocket-assisted landing in Kazakhstan after a descent from
the International Space Station. Touchdown occurred at 11:25 p.m. EDT
Tuesday.

http://spaceflightnow.com/station/exp23/status2.html


FALCON 9 ROCKET MOVES CLOSER TO FRIDAY LAUNCH
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The inaugural Falcon 9 rocket for SpaceX's experimental test flight was
rolled from its hangar to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral's Complex 40
today, still aiming for liftoff Friday during a window extending from 11
a.m. to 3 p.m. EDT.

http://spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/001/status.html


JAPANESE SATELLITE BEGINS FLIGHT TO TET SPACE AGE PARTS
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The Rockot launcher, a modified Russian ballistic missile, lifted off
Wednesday with a Japanese satellite running on off-the-shelf components
designed to prove the utility of everyday parts in space.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1006/02rockot/


THIS WEEK IN SPACE
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Neil Armstrong speaks out against Obama plan and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk
fires back, Atlantis returns home home - perhaps permanently, Delta 4 and
Ariane 5 rockets fly, black holes merge with a bang, and news from Mars'
North Pole.

http://spaceflightnow.com/twis/


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