[FPSPACE] FW: Endeavour departs the space station and targets a Wednesday landing

[LARRY KLAES]

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>Subject: Endeavour departs the space station and targets a Wednesday 
>landing
>Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:19:56 -0500
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>SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR UNDOCKS FROM THE SPACE STATION
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>Endeavour departed the international space station Monday evening to close
>out a marathon five-spacewalk assembly mission. The astronauts are packing
>up the cabin and testing the ship's reentry system for Wednesday's planned
>return to Earth.
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>http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts123/status.html
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>STATION CHIEF GIVES DETAILED UPDATE ON JOINT PROBLEM
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>Analysis of metallic contamination from a critical solar array rotary
>joint on the international space station indicates a "high-friction event"
>of some sort, possibly a misaligned bearing roller or some other like
>defect, has chewed up and damaged one of the surfaces of a 10-foot-wide
>gear and bearing race, the station's program manager said Monday.
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>http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts123/080325sarj/
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>ODYSSEY GIVES CLUES TO GUIDE SEARCH FOR LIFE ON MARS
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>NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter has found evidence of salt deposits. These
>deposits point to places where water once was abundant and where evidence
>might exist of possible Martian life from the Red Planet's past.
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>SUPER-BRIGHT GAMMA RAY BURST VISIBLE TO NAKED EYE
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>An intense stellar explosion - a gamma ray burst - detected by NASA’s
>Swift space telescope, is the most distant object visible to the naked eye
>and the brightest object ever observed by humans.
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>CASSINI FINDS OCEAN MAY EXIST BENEATH TITAN'S CRUST
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>NASA's Cassini spacecraft has discovered evidence that points to the
>existence of an underground ocean of water and ammonia on Saturn's moon
>Titan. The findings, made using radar measurements of Titan's rotation,
>appear in the journal Science.
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>http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0803/24titan/
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>SPACEWALKERS ANCHOR INSPECTION BOOM TO STATION
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>Astronauts Bob Behnken and Mike Foreman went outside for a six-hour
>spacewalk Saturday, installing Endeavour's 50-foot-long heat shield
>inspection boom on the space station for use by the next shuttle mission,
>deploying an experiment package they were unable to attach earlier and
>inspecting the station's damaged solar array rotary joint.
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>http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts123/080322fd13/
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>HUBBLE SERVICING MISSION'S LAUNCH DATE THREATENED
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>With the shuttle Endeavour's mission entering the home stretch, shuttle
>Discovery remains on track for blastoff May 25 to ferry a huge Japanese
>laboratory module to the space station. But subsequent near-term flights,
>including a high-profile mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope,
>could be delayed, sources say, because of ongoing external tank production
>issues.
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>http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts123/080321tanks/
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>ENDEAVOUR UNDOCKS FROM THE SPACE STATION</a>
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><a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts123/080325sarj/">STATION 
>CHIEF GIVES DETAILED UPDATE ON JOINT PROBLEM</a>
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><a href="http://www.spaceflightnowplus.com/index.php">COMPLETE MISSION 
>VIDEO COVERAGE</a>
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><a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0803/24marssalt/">ODYSSEY GIVES 
>CLUES TO GUIDE SEARCH FOR LIFE ON MARS</a>
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><a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0803/24titan/">CASSINI FINDS OCEAN 
>MAY EXIST BENEATH TITAN'S CRUST</a>
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><a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts123/080322fd13/">SPACEWALKERS 
>ANCHOR INSPECTION BOOM TO STATION</a>
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><a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts123/080321tanks/">HUBBLE 
>SERVICING MISSION'S LAUNCH DATE THREATENED</a>
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