NASA zeroes in on root cause of shuttle tank cracks

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NASA ZEROES IN ON ROOT CAUSE OF SHUTTLE TANK CRACKS
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Engineers believe they have zeroed in on the root cause of cracks in the
shuttle Discovery's external tank, NASA officials said Tuesday.
Installation of a relatively simple modification to the tops of the
structural ribs, or stringers, where the ship's liquid oxygen tank is
supported by a massive flange should resolve the problem once and for all,
setting the stage for another launch attempt Feb. 24.

http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/110111rootcause/

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NASA SENDS GLORY SATELLITE TO WEST COAST LAUNCH SITE
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After a cross-country road trip, NASA's Glory climate monitoring satellite
arrived at a California military base Tuesday in preparation for a Feb. 23
launch on a Taurus rocket.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1101/12glory/


SCIENTISTS RELEASE FIRST TASTE OF DATA FROM PLANCK MISSION
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Europe's Planck observatory has pulled back the curtain on some of the
coldest and most complex corners of the universe, revealing ancient
superclusters of galaxies and yielding new data on phenomena closer to
home, scientists announced Tuesday.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1101/11planck/


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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