From: "Spaceflight Now" <newsalert@spaceflightnow.com>
Date: Apr 12, 2013 1:21 PM
Subject: Kepler's problems continue / Replica shuttle boosters rising
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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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KEPLER REACTION WHEEL STILL PROBLEMATIC AFTER MITIGATION
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NASA's Kepler telescope, peering at the sky from a vantage point more than 40 million miles from Earth, is showing troubling signs of wear and tear, and engineers are studying how to keep the planet-hunting observatory running with jittery vision.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1304/11kepler/
REPLICA SPACE SHUTTLE BOOSTERS RISING AT THE CAPE
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Towering replicas of the twin solid-fuel booster rockets that provided the vast majority of thrust to propel space shuttles skyward are being stacked outside the new Atlantis exhibit at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts135/130411srb/
PHOTO GALLERY:
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts135/130411srb/gallery.html
NASA UNVEILS 2014 BUDGET REQUEST, ASTEROID INITIATIVE
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The Obama administration is requesting $17.7 billion for NASA in its fiscal 2014 budget proposal, including $105 million to begin laying the groundwork for a proposed mission to robotically capture a small asteroid and move it into high Earth orbit to serve as a target for manned sample return visits in the 2020s.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1304/10budget/
CANADA'S FIRST RADAR OBSERVATION CRAFT FEARED LOST
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Canada's Radarsat 1 satellite stopped communicating with Earth in late March, and officials fear the country's oldest Earth observation satellite may be lost for good, the Canadian Space Agency announced Tuesday.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1304/10radarsat/
PLANET-HUNTER AND X-RAY SENSOR SELECTED BY NASA
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NASA will launch a planet-hunting satellite and mount an X-ray astrophysics experiment on the International Space Station in 2017, the space agency announced last week.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1304/08explorer/
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
+++ FERRYFLIGHT SHUTTLE PATCH
"The Final Mission" - NASA emblem developed for the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft crew and their support teams to deliver the orbiters to their final destinations at museums.http://www.spaceflightnowstore.com/ +++
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