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STUNNING TRUE-COLOR PICTURE OF SATURN'S RINGS
http://spaceflightnow.com/cassini/040722ringscolor.html CASSINI SEES CRESCENT RHEA
http://spaceflightnow.com/cassini/040721rhea.html NEWBORN STAR PROVIDES INFO ON SOLAR SYSTEM'S ORIGIN
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0407/22newbornstar/ MERCURY ORBITER DELIVERED TO FLORIDA LAUNCH PAD
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NASA TELEVISION IS SWITCHING SATELLITES JULY 24
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0407/21nasatv/ NASA GOES TO THE 'SORCE' OF EARTH SUN-BLOCKERS
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0407/22sorce/ FROM MOJAVE TO THE MOON: ARMSTRONG'S EARLY YEARS
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<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/cassini/040721rhea.html">CASSINI<http://spaceflightnow.com/cassini/040721rhea.html">CASSINI> SEES CRESCENT RHEA</a>
<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0407/22newbornstar/">NEWBORN<http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0407/22newbornstar/">NEWBORN> STAR PROVIDES INFO ON SOLAR SYSTEM'S ORIGIN</a>
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<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0407/21armstrong/">FROM<http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0407/21armstrong/">FROM> MOJAVE TO THE MOON: ARMSTRONG'S EARLY YEARS</a>
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With shimmering pinks, hues of gray and a hint of brown, a newly released
image of Saturn's rings resembles a fresco where nature is the painter.
The Cassini spacecraft captured this exquisite natural color view a few
days before entering orbit around Saturn.
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The first artificial satellite in the Saturn system, the Cassini
spacecraft, returned images of the natural moons following a successful
insertion into orbit. This is an unmagnified view of the moon Rhea.
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A new study has caught a newborn star similar to the sun in a fiery
outburst. X-ray observations of the flare-up, which are the first of their
kind, are providing important new information about the early evolution of
the sun and the process of planet formation.
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NASA's MESSENGER space probe took a night owl drive early Wednesday from
its processing hangar to launch pad 17B at Cape Canaveral where it was
mounted atop the Boeing Delta 2-Heavy rocket in preparation for blastoff
to the planet Mercury.
http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d307/040722windows.html
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NASA Television will improve coverage to viewers in Alaska and Hawaii as
well as the continental United States when it switches its signal from one
satellite to two different ones.
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Scientists using measurements from NASA's Solar Radiation and Climate
Experiment (SORCE) satellite have discovered that Venus and sunspots have
something in common: they both block some of the sun's energy going to
Earth.
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The B-29 mothership shuddered, and pilot Neil Armstrong, flying the
airplane from the co-pilot's seat, glimpsed a bullet-shaped propeller hub
shoot past the cockpit. He looked over and saw that the number four
propeller had disintegrated.
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An unarmed Peacekeeper intercontinental ballistic missile was successfully
launched Wednesday from a launch facility on North Vandenberg Air Force
Base, California. The missile carried 8 unarmed re-entry vehicles
approximately 4,800 miles to a predetermined target at the Reagan Test
Site on the Kwajalein Atoll.
New digital transfers offer the ultimate record
of the Apollo Moon landings.
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