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WEATHER POSTPONES SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR'S FERRYFLIGHT TO WEDNESDAY
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The space shuttle Endeavour will spend yet another day at the Kennedy Space Center as bad weather along the ferryflight's route remains problematic to begin the cross-country journey. Takeoff is rescheduled for Wednesday, with further details on the flight path and revisions to the plan still pending.
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/ferry/status105.html
MUST-SEE NEW ENDEAVOUR PHOTO GALLERY:
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts134/120916pushback/
THREE-MAN SPACE CREW BACK FROM 125 DAYS IN ORBIT
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Two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA flight engineer bid their three space station crewmates farewell Sunday, strapped into their Soyuz ferry craft, undocked from the lab complex and fell back to Earth, making a pinpoint landing in Kazakhstan to close out a 125-day voyage.
SOYUZ LAUNCHES EUROPEAN WEATHER SATELLITE
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Europe's next polar-orbiting weather satellite launched from Kazakhstan aboard a Soyuz rocket on Monday, on the way to join a fleet of international observers dedicated to improving global weather forecasts. Liftoff occurred at 1628 GMT (12:28 p.m. EDT).
http://spaceflightnow.com/soyuz/st25/status.html
SEQUESTRATION WOULD COME AT 'GREAT COST' TO NASA
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NASA stands to lose nearly $1.5 billion in 2013 unless Congress acts to reduce budget deficits by the end of the year, and the outlook is even worse for U.S. military space programs, according to a report released on Friday by the White House.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1209/14sequestration/
SIGNS POINT TO INTERSTELLAR SPACE FOR VOYAGER 1 PROBE
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More than 35 years after launching from Earth and now at the frontier of the solar system, NASA's Voyager 1 probe may be tasting interstellar space for the first time, according to scientists analyzing fresh data from the distant explorer.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1209/16voyager/
CALIFORNIA ATLAS 5 FINALLY FLIES WITH FLOCK OF SATELLITES
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Hoisting a clandestine prime payload -- likely a pair of formation-flying ocean surveillance satellites -- and a menagerie of micro missions hitchhiking into space, the Atlas 5 rocket reeled off another successful performance Thursday in a rare mid-day launch from California.
http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av033/
LAUNCH PHOTO GALLERY:
http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av033/launch/
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. Now updated with a timeline of the triumphs and disasters of Mars exploration.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mission-to-mars-astronomy/id548931049?mt=8
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