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Atlantis landing ends final missionCape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) May 26, 2010 The space shuttle Atlantis returned to Earth Wednesday, wrapping up the final mission of its 25-year career. Atlantis touched down at 8:48 am (1248 GMT) at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, completing a picture-perfect landing on the runway at the Kennedy Space Center. The shuttle uncoupled from the orbiting International Space Station (ISS) space on Sunday after its mission deliverings 12 tonnes of supplies and equipment. It was Atlantis' 32nd and final mission and will be followed by only two more shuttle flights, one by Discovery in mid-September and the program's final mission by Endeavour at the end of November. ... read more |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) May 24, 2010Planners of NASA's next Mars mission have selected a flight schedule that will use favorable positions for two currently orbiting NASA Mars orbiters to obtain maximum information during descent and landing. Continuing analysis of the geometry and communications options for the arrival at Mars have led planners for the Mars Science Laboratory, or Curiosity, to choose an Earth-to-Mars trajec ... more  
Boulder CO (SPX) May 24, 2010New Horizons is speeding through an ocean of space among the giant planets and the nearly 2.5 billion-mile expanse of the middle solar system. Onboard our spacecraft, all systems are "go" and we continue to speed outward at nearly a million miles per day. Anniversaries are important, and this past January, New Horizons marked its fourth launch anniversary. Also in January, Pluto celebrated ... more  
Baltimore MD (SPX) May 25, 2010Astronomers are reporting the discovery of a planetary system way out of tilt, where the orbits of two planets are at a steep angle to each other. This surprising finding will impact theories of how multi-planet systems evolve, and it shows that some violent events can happen to disrupt planets' orbits after a planetary system forms, say researchers. "The findings mean that future studies ... more |
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Atlantis heads back to Earth on final missionWashington (AFP) May 23, 2010 The space shuttle Atlantis undocked Sunday from the International Space Station (ISS) and headed back to Earth to complete its final mission after successfully delivering tons of supplies. The shuttle uncoupled from the orbiting space laboratory at 11:22 am (1522 GMT) after its six-member crew unloaded the last equipment, which included a crucial communications antenna, power storage batteries and a radiator. The biggest single element was the five-ton Rassvet research module, or MRM-1, which wi ... read more |
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