More changed for shuttle Discovery tank / Earth-size planet found

NEWSALERT: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 @ 1337 GMT
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NASA ORDERS FULL ROUND OF STIFFENERS TO DISCOVERY TANK
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Senior NASA managers Monday agreed to install stiffeners all the way
around the shuttle Discovery's external tank to beef up structural ribs,
or stringers, that are susceptible to cracks when exposed to
ultra-low-temperature propellant. Engineers say the modifications can be
completed in time to support at launch as early as Feb. 24, assuming the
work goes smoothly no other major problems develop.

http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/110110tank/

STS-133 ARCHIVE:
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/


ASTRONOMERS UNVEIL FARAWAY PLANET OF MOLTON ROCK
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Scientists announced Monday the discovery of a blistered planet not much
bigger than Earth, the smallest such object ever confirmed beyond the
solar system.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1101/10kepler/


PHOTO GALLERIES: THE CALIFORNIA SPACE SHUTTLE
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As we count down to next week's Delta 4-Heavy rocket on its maiden West
Coast flight from the same launch pad once built for military space
shuttle missions, let's look back a quarter-century to the time when
Enterprise stood atop Space Launch Complex 6 for testing. It was 1985 and
the prototype shuttle was checking out the pad at Vandenberg Air Force
Base.

http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d352/status.html

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