From: "Spaceflight Now" <newsalert@spaceflightnow.com>
Date: May 31, 2013 12:46 PM
Subject: 100 days since launch, new Landsat kicks into service
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Scholarship Foundation Hosts Skylab 40th Anniversary Benefit
Apollo 12 moonwalker Alan Bean and fellow Skylab astronauts will join the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation in celebrating the 40th anniversary of Skylab on July 27, 2013. The benefit event includes a gourmet dinner in the Apollo/Saturn V Center at Kennedy Space Center followed by a panel discussion with the astronauts in the Lunar Theater. Get fundraiser details and tickets at:
http://astronautscholarship.org/skylab-40th-anniversary-celebration/
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NEW LANDSAT COMMENCES EARTH-MONITORING MISSION
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Control of the new Landsat spacecraft to continue adding to the four decades of uninterrupted Earth-resources data was signed over to the U.S. Geological Survey from NASA on Thursday, completing the space agency's job of developing, launching and certifying the satellite.
http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av035/service.html
CASSINI FINDS HINTS OF ACTIVITY AT DIONE
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From a distance, most of the Saturnian moon Dione resembles a bland cueball. Thanks to close-up images of a 500-mile-long mountain on the moon from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, scientists have found more evidence for the idea that Dione was likely active in the past. It could still be active now.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1305/30dione/
SOYUZ REACHES SPACE STATION WITH CREW OF THREE
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A Russian Soyuz spacecraft launched Tuesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a four-orbit, six-hour trek to the International Space Station to deliver three fresh crew members -- a veteran Russian cosmonaut, an Italian test pilot and an American shuttle veteran -- to the International Space Station.
http://spaceflightnow.com/station/exp36/status.html
LAUNCH PHOTO GALLERY:
http://spaceflightnow.com/station/exp36/130529launchphotos/
CURIOSITY TASKED WITH HUNTING FOR MARTIAN ORGANICS
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Back in action after a month out of contact with Earth, NASA's Curiosity rover is renewing its quest to excavate a definitive signal of organic molecules - the building blocks of life - from the red planet's regolith and bedrock after a first taste of Martian soil turned up inconclusive results.
http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/msl/130527organics/
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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