NEWSALERT: Sunday, August 19, 2012 @ 1930 GMT
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The latest news from Spaceflight Now
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TENTATIVE TRAVEL PLANS FOR MARS ROVER UNVEILED
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The Curiosity rover likely will spend the rest of the year monitoring the
martian weather, collecting radiation data and analyzing rock and soil
samples near its landing site in Gale Crater before it heads for its
ultimate target, the rugged foothills of Mount Sharp just four-and-a-half
miles, but many months, away, the project scientist said Friday.
INTERACTIVE iPAD GUIDE TO CURIOSITY ROVER MISSION
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Astronomy Now and Spaceflight Now have created an interactive iPad guide to the Curiosity rover mission. Learn more about the mission, explore the
rover's components and preview Europe's plans for the next Mars rover
destined to visit the Red Planet.
PHOTOS: ENDEAVOUR READY TO SET SAIL ONE FINAL TIME
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Now peacefully parked in the Vehicle Assembly Building, the space shuttle
Endeavour is counting down the days until she bids farewell to the Kennedy
Space Center and rides piggyback atop the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft to Los
Angeles next month. Spaceflight Now photographer Walter Scriptunas II took
the chance this week to shoot a gallery that captures the beauty of the spacecraft.
SEA LAUNCH DEPLOYS TV SATELLITE FOR LATIN AMERICA
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A telecommunications satellite for broadcasting cable and direct-to-home TV
programming across Latin America and the Caribbean was blasted into orbit
today atop a 20-story-tall booster rocket launched from a floating platform
in the Pacific Ocean.
PRIORITIES LIST ISSUED TO DIRECT HELIOPHYSICS RESEARCH
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NASA should shift its heliophysics research strategy to include more nimble,
less expensive satellite missions in light of a tight budget already devoted
to several costly projects this decade, top scientists reported this week.
ENDEAVOUR AND ATLANTIS DO THE FINAL SHUTTLE SHUFFLE
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The space shuttles Endeavour and Atlantis swapped locations at Kennedy Space Center Thursday morning, as Endeavour departed her hangar for the final time
to take up storage in the Vehicle Assembly Building and Atlantis left
storage to resume museum display preparations, briefly appearing
nose-to-nose on the road.
SPECIAL PHOTO GALLERY
HUBBLE WATCHES STAR CLUSTERS ON A COLLISION COURSE
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Astronomers using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have caught two
clusters full of massive stars that may be in the early stages of merging.
The clusters are 170,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a
small satellite galaxy to our Milky Way.
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Colin James Watling
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Colin James Watling
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Various Voluntary work-Litter Picking for Parish Council (Daytime) and also a friend of Kessingland Beach (Watchman)
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Real Astronomer and head of the Comet section for LYRA (Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth Regional Astronomers) also head of K.A.G (Kessingland Astronomy Group) and Navigator (Astrogator) of the Stars (Fieldwork)
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Real Astronomer and head of the Comet section for LYRA (Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth Regional Astronomers) also head of K.A.G (Kessingland Astronomy Group) and Navigator (Astrogator) of the Stars (Fieldwork)
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Information -- And More Info
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