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NASA READY TO PUT FIRST SHUTTLE ON PAD IN 2 YEARS
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts114/status.html PHOTO GALLERY: DISCOVERY'S PRE-LAUNCH MOVES
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts114/050403gallery/01.html PLANETS GALORE LIKE EARTH AWAIT DISCOVERY
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0504/04planets/ SUPERNOVA ORIGIN CLUES FOUND IN DUSTY STELLAR WIND
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0504/04supernova/ 'SUPER-STARBURST' GALAXIES HIDE ACTIVE BLACK HOLES
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0504/04starburst/ LISA AND THE SEARCH FOR ELUSIVE GRAVITY WAVES
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<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts114/status.html">NASA<http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts114/status.html">NASA> READY TO PUT FIRST SHUTTLE ON PAD IN 2 YEARS</a>
<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts114/050403gallery/01.html">PHOTO<http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts114/050403gallery/01.html">PHOTO> GALLERY: DISCOVERY'S PRE-LAUNCH MOVES</a>
<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0504/04planets/">PLANETS<http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0504/04planets/">PLANETS> GALORE LIKE EARTH AWAIT DISCOVERY</a>
<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0504/04supernova/">SUPERNOVA<http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0504/04supernova/">SUPERNOVA> ORIGIN CLUES FOUND IN DUSTY STELLAR WIND</a>
<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0504/04starburst/">'SUPER-STARBURST'<http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0504/04starburst/">'SUPER-STARBURST'> GALAXIES HIDE ACTIVE BLACK HOLES</a>
<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0504/04gravwaves/">LISA<http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0504/04gravwaves/">LISA> AND THE SEARCH FOR ELUSIVE GRAVITY WAVES</a>
<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0504/02tetwalker/">SHAPE-SHIFTING<http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0504/02tetwalker/">SHAPE-SHIFTING> ROBOT NANOTECH SWARMS ON MARS</a>
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Technicians have completed final adjustments to tiles on space shuttle
Discovery's nose, setting the stage for the momentous move from the
Vehicle Assembly Building to launch pad 39B sometime Wednesday morning.
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This collection of pictures follows space shuttle Discovery's progress in
preparing for the return-to-flight launch at Kennedy Space Center as the
payload bay doors are closed, rollout from its hangar, the lift upright
inside the Vehicle Assembly Building and mating to the tank and booster
rockets.
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How many planets like the Earth are there among the 130 or so known
planetary systems beyond our own? How many of these "Earths" could be
habitable?
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Scientists have detected a dusty wind emitted by a star that, at the end
of its life, turned into a white dwarf and then exploded as a supernova.
This is the first time that a wind from this type of supernova precursor
has been observed and it is also the first time that associated dust has
been detected.
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A team of European scientists has used Virtual Observatories to compare
observations of distant "starburst" galaxies made at radio and X-ray
wavelengths. This is the first study to combine the highest resolution and
sensitivity radio and X-ray images which penetrate the dust hiding the
centers of some of these distant galaxies.
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For almost 100 years, scientists have been searching for direct evidence
of the existence of gravity waves - faint ripples in the fabric of
spacetime predicted in Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity.
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Like new and protective parents, engineers watched as the TETWalker robot
successfully traveled across the floor at NASA's Goddard Space Flight
Center. Robots of this type will eventually be miniaturized and joined
together to form "autonomous nanotechnology swarms" that alter their shape
to flow over rocky terrain, potentially supporting NASA's Vision for Space
Exploration.
New digital transfers offer the ultimate record
of the Apollo Moon landings.
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