International Space Station bids goodbye to the shuttle

NEWSALERT: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 1722 GMT
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INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION BIDS GOODBYE TO THE SHUTTLE
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The final space shuttle parted company with the International Space
Station today in a sentimental sendoff for America's winged machines that
spent the past decade constructing the million-pound science complex and
supplying the orbiting laboratory with vast loads of logistics. In 37
missions, the shuttles spent 276 days, 11 hours and 23 minutes docked at
the station.

http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts135/status.html

NASA AGREES TO HELP MODIFY ATLAS 5 ROCKET FOR ASTRONAUTS
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United Launch Alliance and NASA will share technical data to help ready
the company's Atlas 5 rocket for astronaut passengers, officials announced
Monday. The agreement places the Atlas 5 rocket among the top competitors
to launch the next piloted spacecraft from U.S. soil after the retirement
of the space shuttle.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1107/19ulaccdev/

DAWN UNMASKS VESTA
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The Dawn spacecraft slipped into orbit Saturday around Vesta, one of the
largest unexplored objects in the solar system. Vesta is the second-most
massive body in the main asteroid belt, and Dawn returned its first
close-up image of the 300-mile-wide protoplanet on Sunday.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1107/18vesta/

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