SETI bioastro: FW: Atlas 5 rocket rolled to pad for Wednesday launch

From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Tue Oct 09 2007 - 10:34:53 PDT

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    >Subject: Atlas 5 rocket rolled to pad for Wednesday launch
    >Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 11:19:31 -0400
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    >ATLAS 5 ROCKET ROLLED TO PAD FOR WEDNESDAY LAUNCH
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    >The Atlas rocket program looks to return to its successful ways this week,
    >launching a powerful U.S. military communications satellite Wednesday
    >night with a tried-and-true engine valve instead of a newer design blamed
    >for creating serious problems during the last ascent four months ago.
    >
    > http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av011/071007preview.html
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    >CASSINI IS ON THE TRAIL OF A RUNAWAY MYSTERY
    >--------------------------------------------
    >NASA scientists are on the trail of Iapetus' mysterious dark side, which
    >seems to be home to a bizarre "runaway" process that is transporting
    >vaporized water ice from the dark areas to the white areas of the
    >Saturnian moon.
    >
    > http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0710/08iapetus/
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    >FUSE REACHES THE END
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    >The intrepid never-say-die space telescope known as FUSE has finally
    >reached its mission's end and will be turned off after more than eight
    >years of discoveries on everything from planets and nearby stars to
    >galaxies and quasars billions of light-years away.
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    > http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0710/08fuse/
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    >ARIANE 5 LOFTS SATELLITE PAIR FOR AMERICAS, AUSTRALIA
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    >An Ariane 5 rocket blasted away from its jungle launch pad in South
    >America on Friday night, overcoming a technical glitch that stopped an
    >initial countdown with just 10 seconds left on the clock.
    >
    > http://spaceflightnow.com/ariane/v178/
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    >GAMMA-RAY LIGHTHOUSE AT THE EDGE OF OUR UNIVERSE
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    >There is a gamma-ray lighthouse shining from the edge of our universe.
    >Astronomers have discovered it using the European Space Agency's orbiting
    >gamma-ray observatory, Integral. Now, they must work hard to understand
    >it.
    >
    > http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0710/05lighthouse/
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    >
    >GODDARD CENTER PROPOSING LUNAR SCIENCE WORK
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    >Pack your bags because "suitcase science" is taking off. Coming on the
    >heels of two Lunar Sortie Science Opportunities awards for Goddard are two
    >more, this time in the field of astrophysics. The studies could result in
    >simple, automated "suitcase science" instrument packages deployed on the
    >lunar surface by astronauts.
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    > http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0710/05lunarscience/
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    ><a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av011/071007preview.html">ATLAS 5
    >ROCKET ROLLED TO PAD FOR WEDNESDAY LAUNCH</a>
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    ><a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av011/status.html">LIVE MISSION
    >UPDATES</a>
    >
    ><a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0710/08iapetus/">CASSINI IS ON THE
    >TRAIL OF A RUNAWAY MYSTERY</a>
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    ><a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0710/08fuse/">FUSE REACHES THE
    >END</a>
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    ><a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/ariane/v178/">ARIANE 5 LOFTS SATELLITE
    >PAIR FOR AMERICAS, AUSTRALIA</a>
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    ><a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0710/05lighthouse/">GAMMA-RAY
    >LIGHTHOUSE AT THE EDGE OF OUR UNIVERSE</a>
    >
    ><a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0710/05lunarscience/">GODDARD
    >CENTER PROPOSING LUNAR SCIENCE WORK</a>
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