[FPSPACE] FW: Discovery rolls out / Whitson describes rough Soyuz entry

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>Subject: Discovery rolls out / Whitson describes rough Soyuz entry
>Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 12:21:53 -0400
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>SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY ROLLS OUT TO THE LAUNCH PAD
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>With four weeks until its planned launch to haul the Japanese science
>laboratory module up to the space station, shuttle Discovery traveled
>overnight from the Vehicle Assembly Building to pad 39A.
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>http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts124/080503rollout/
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>WHITSON DESCRIBES ROUGH SOYUZ ENTRY AND LANDING
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>Plunging back into the atmosphere April 19 after a six-month stay aboard
>the international space station, Expedition 16 commander Peggy Whitson and
>Soyuz commander Yuri Malenchenko realized something was very wrong. One of
>the two modules attached to the crew cabin had failed to separate prior to
>entry and the spacecraft, moving at some 5 miles per second, slammed into
>the discernible atmosphere in the wrong orientation.
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>http://spaceflightnow.com/station/exp16/080502peggywhitson.html
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>ASTRONOMERS DISCOVER NEW BREED OF STAR
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>Using the Otto Struve Telescope at McDonald Observatory, astronomers at
>the University of Texas have predicted and confirmed the existence of a
>new type of variable star: a pulsating carbon white dwarf.
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>http://astronomynow.com/Astronomersdiscovernewbreedofstar.html
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>STELLAR TIME BOMB MAKES SCHEDULED EXPLOSION
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>Using observations from NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, an
>international team of astronomers has discovered a timing mechanism that
>allows them to predict exactly when a neutron star will unleash its wrath.
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>http://astronomynow.com/Stellartimebombmakesscheduledexplosion.html
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>SHUTTLE DISCOVERY ROLLS OUT TO THE LAUNCH PAD</a>
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>COLLECTION</a>
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>GALLERY</a>
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>href="http://spaceflightnow.com/station/exp16/080502peggywhitson.html">WHITSON 
>DESCRIBES ROUGH SOYUZ ENTRY AND LANDING</a>
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>href="http://astronomynow.com/Astronomersdiscovernewbreedofstar.html">ASTRONOMERS 
>DISCOVER NEW BREED OF STAR</a>
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>href="http://astronomynow.com/Stellartimebombmakesscheduledexplosion.html">STELLAR 
>TIME BOMB MAKES SCHEDULED EXPLOSION</a>
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