Shuttle Discovery video special / NASA launch director gets commercial job

   NEWSALERT: Tuesday, January 17, 2011 @ 1422 GMT
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GOOD NIGHT, DISCOVERY
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The space shuttle Discovery, undergoing her retirement and transition to
museum status at the Kennedy Space Center, has been outfitted with
hollowed thruster and rocket pods, replicas of the main engines, the
payload bay doors sealed up and the emotional moment of being powered down
for the final time. We take a look back at all of those events in this
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FORMER SPACE SHUTTLE LAUNCH DIRECTOR JOINS ULA
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As another sign of the changing landscape in the U.S. space program,
NASA's long-time space shuttle launch director has joined United Launch
Alliance to lead the commercial firm's human spaceflight operations.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1201/16leinbach/


WEATHER LOOKS GOOD FOR THURSDAY'S DELTA 4 LAUNCH
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Thursday evening is looking like a pretty nice night to launch a rocket
from Florida's spaceport, according the early weather outlook issued by
Air Force meteorologists Monday morning.

http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d358/status.html


ILL-FATED MARS PROBE FALLS TO EARTH
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A $170 million Russian Mars probe, stranded in low-Earth orbit after a
malfunction following launch in November, reportedly fell back into the
dense lower atmosphere Sunday, apparently breaking up over the southern
Pacific Ocean west of Chile.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1201/15reentry/

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