LIVE: Mobile launcher rollout / New crew arrives at space station

NEWSALERT: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 @ 1824 GMT

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MAMMOTH MOBILE LAUNCH MOUNT MOVES TO PAD TODAY
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One of NASA's heavy-duty diesel-powered crawlers is moving the space
agency's towering new 39-story mobile launch platform Wednesday to pad 39B
at the Kennedy Space Center. First motion occurred just before 9:30 a.m.
EST (1430 GMT) and it's expected to reach the pad by 5:30 p.m. EST. We are
streaming live video of the rollout.

LIVE VIDEO OF ROLLOUT:
http://spaceflightnow.com/live/

PREVIEW STORY:
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1111/15mobilelauncher/

PHOTO GALLERY: ROLLOUT BEGINS:
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1111/16rolloutphotos/


SOYUZ CAPSULE DOCKS TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
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The Soyuz spacecraft carrying three new residents for the International
Space Station successfully docked to the orbiting outpost at 12:24 a.m.
EST (0524 GMT) Wednesday while flying 248 miles over the South Pacific.

http://spaceflightnow.com/station/exp29/status.html

ARCHIVED VIDEO COVERAGE:
http://www.spaceflightnowplus.com/index.php

HIGH-DEFINITION VIDEO:
http://www.spaceflightnowplus.com/hd/exp29/


HELP WANTED: APPLY TO BE A NASA ASTRONAUT ONLINE
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NASA is recruiting up to 15 new astronauts to bolster the agency's corps
of space fliers to staff the International Space Station and lay the
groundwork for exploration missions beyond Earth, agency officials
announced Tuesday.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1111/15astronauts/


DECEMBER DEADLINE FOR STRANDED MARS PROBE
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Russia has until early December to establish contact with the stranded
Phobos-Grunt Mars probe and send it toward the Red Planet, the head of the
Russian space ageny said Monday.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1111/14phobosgrunt/

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