[FPSPACE] FW: Phoenix lander unstows robotic arm / Shuttle prepped for launch

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>Subject: Phoenix lander unstows robotic arm / Shuttle prepped for launch
>Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 16:21:29 -0400
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>        NEWSALERT: Thursday, May 29, 2008 @ 2021 GMT
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>PHOENIX LANDER SUCCESSFULLY DEPLOYS ROBOTIC ARM
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>After being folded up on Earth a year ago, the Phoenix spacecraft's robot
>arm finally got to move Wednesday as flight controllers began the process
>of unstowing the scoop-laden appendage that will dig up samples of the
>frozen martian terrain for study.
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>http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/phoenix/status.html
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>STATION TOILET PARTS DELIVERED FOR SHUTTLE LAUNCH
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>A replacement pump and other equipment needed to repair the Russian toilet
>aboard the international space station was installed in the shuttle
>Discovery early today as engineers readied the ship for blastoff Saturday
>on a long-awaited flight to deliver Japan's huge Kibo laboratory module to
>the orbiting outpost.
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>http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts124/080529issparts/
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>INDIA'S MOON PROBE BEING FITTED WITH INSTRUMENT SUITE
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>Scientists from more than a half-dozen countries are nearly finished
>shipping parts for six international instruments destined to fly to the
>moon aboard India's Chandrayaan 1 lunar orbiter later this summer.
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>http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0805/28chandrayaan1/
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