[FPSPACE] FW: Shuttle to dock as launch pad damage investigated / Phoenix sees ice?

[LARRY KLAES]

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>Subject: Shuttle to dock as launch pad damage investigated / Phoenix sees 
>ice?
>Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 09:56:12 -0400
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>DISCOVERY TO ARRIVE AT THE SPACE STATION TODAY
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>The shuttle Discovery, carrying Japan's huge Kibo laboratory module,
>closed in on the international space station today, on course for docking
>around 1:54 p.m. EDT.
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>http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts124/080602fd3/
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>LAUNCH PAD DAMAGED DURING DISCOVERY'S LIFTOFF
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>Launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center suffered unusual damage during
>the shuttle Discovery's blastoff Saturday, NASA officials said Sunday.
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>http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts124/080601pad/
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>PHOENIX SEES POSSIBLE ICE
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>Scientists have discovered what may be ice underneath the Phoenix lander,
>exposed when soil was blown away as it landed in the northern polar plains
>of Mars last week.
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>http://www.astronomynow.com/080602Phoenixseespossibleice.html
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>INITIAL TANK PICTURES SHOW NO MAJOR FOAM LOSS
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>Close-up photos of the shuttle Discovery's external tank, shot as it
>drifted away from the orbiter Saturday, show a few relatively minor areas
>of foam loss but no major damage, NASA officials said Sunday. About five
>pieces of debris were seen falling away during launch from a camera
>mounted on the tank, but Mission Management Team Chairman LeRoy Cain said
>Sunday it's not clear where the presumed foam might have originated.
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