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The latest news from Spaceflight Now
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SPACEX'S REUSABLE ROCKET TESTBED TAKES FIRST HOP
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SpaceX's Grasshopper testbed, a slender white rocket fitted with insect-like landing legs, took off for a brief hop at the company's Texas test site Friday.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1209/24grasshopper/
PHOTO FEATURE: COAST-TO-COAST WITH ENDEAVOUR
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Endeavour's ferryflight across the country last week traveled from the Cape to the City of Angels, and Spaceflight Now was on the move to capture the departure, the final visit to Edwards Air Force Base that had played a key role throughout the space shuttle program and the stirring flyover of Los Angeles where the spaceship now resides for retirement. See our four-page photo spread on the trip.
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts134/ferrygallery/
CALIFORNIA WELCOMES ENDEAVOUR BACK HOME
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Completing the final leg of the final space shuttle ferryflight, the decommissioned Endeavour toured iconic landmarks around California before her 747 carrier jet made a tire-smoking touchdown at the Los Angeles International Airport on Friday.
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts134/120921lax/
FERRYFLIGHT JOURNAL:
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/ferry/status105.html
NEW COMET MIGHT BLAZE BRIGHTER THAN THE FULL MOON
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A new comet has been discovered that is predicted to blaze incredibly brilliantly in the skies during late 2013. With a perihelion passage of less than two million kilometres from the Sun in November 2013, current predictions are of an object that will dazzle the eye at up to magnitude —16. That's far brighter than the full Moon.
http://astronomynow.com/news/n1209/25comet/
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 includes a clickable guide to all previous Mars missions.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mission-to-mars-astronomy/id548931049?mt=8
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Colin James Watling
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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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