From: "Spaceflight Now" <newsalert@spaceflightnow.com>
Date: Mar 27, 2013 8:01 AM
Subject: SpaceX capsule parachutes back to Earth / Proton returns to flight
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The latest news from Spaceflight Now
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Charity Gala Celebrates Stellar Astronauts
Join the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation celebrating the new class of U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame inductees at the 2013 Induction Gala, April 19 at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex! Secure your tickets for this red carpet affair online now. Corporate tables are also available.
http://www.astronautscholarship.org/AHOFtickets
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DRAGON COMMERCIAL CARGO CRAFT RETURNS TO EARTH
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SpaceX's commercially-developed Dragon spacecraft departed the International Space Station on Tuesday on the way back to Earth with nearly 2,700 pounds of experiment samples and equipment no longer needed on the complex. Splashdown in the Pacific Ocean occurred at 12:34 p.m. EDT (1634 GMT).
http://spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/005/130326splashdown/
OUR MISSION STATUS CENTER:
http://spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/005/status.html
PROTON/BREEZE M BLASTS OFF WITH MEXICAN SATELLITE
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Russia's Proton rocket and Breeze M upper stage returned to flight Tuesday with a Mexican communications satellite, launching for the first time since the expendable rocket put a payload in the wrong orbit on a flight in December. Liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan occurred at 3:06 p.m. EDT (1906 GMT), beginning a 9-hour mission to deliver the Satmex 8 satellite into geostationary transfer orbit.
http://spaceflightnow.com/proton/satmex8/status.html
GALLERIES CAPTURE SPLENDID VIEWS OF ATLAS LAUNCH
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Relive last week's spectacular liftoff of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, leaving Cape Canaveral's Complex 41 atop 860,000 pounds of thrust carrying the second Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous satellite, or SBIRS GEO 2, for the U.S. military's network of missile early-warning detection spacecraft.
UNITED LAUNCH ALLIANCE GALLERY:
http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av037/remotes/
BIONETICS PHOTO SERVICES GALLERY:
http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av037/bionetics/
PLANCK REVEALS BIG BANG'S FIREBALL IN HI-DEF
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The cosmic microwave background - the cooling fireball of the big bang - has been observed in greater detail than ever before by the European Space Agency's Planck spacecraft.
http://astronomynow.com/news/n1303/21planck/
INTERACTIVE iPAD GUIDE TO CURIOSITY ROVER MISSION
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Astronomy Now and Spaceflight Now have created an interactive iPad guide to the Curiosity rover mission. Learn more about the mission, explore the rover's components and preview Europe's plans for the next Mars rover destined to visit the Red Planet. Now updated with a timeline of the triumphs and disasters of Mars exploration.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mission-to-mars-astronomy/id548931049?mt=8
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