From: "Spaceflight Now" <newsalert@spaceflightnow.com>
Date: May 21, 2013 11:02 AM
Subject: Delta 4 set for return to flight / British astronaut headed for ISS
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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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DELTA 4 CLEARED FOR RETURN TO FLIGHT THURSDAY
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United Launch Alliance is preparing for its second rocket flight for the Air Force in just eight days, a Thursday evening blastoff from Cape Canaveral that returns the Delta 4 rocket to action carrying a military communications satellite to serve the Americas.
http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d362/preview.html
BRITISH ASTRONAUT ASSIGNED TO SPACE STATION MISSION
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The UK's first astronaut to officially represent Queen and country has been assigned to a six month stay aboard the International Space Station. Timothy Peake, a former test pilot and major in the British Army Air Corps, was named to the Expedition 46/47 mission, scheduled to fly to the orbiting outpost in 2015.
http://astronomynow.com/news/n1305/20peake/
SPACEX TESTING FALCON FOR COMMERCIAL SATELLITES
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The payload fairing for SpaceX's upgraded Falcon 9 rocket, set to debut this summer on a launch from California, is being tested inside the world's largest vacuum chamber in Ohio as the burgeoning space transportation company breaks in to the commercial launch market.
http://spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/006/130516fairing/
LOCKHEED MARTIN TO BUILD TWO MORE GOES WEATHER SATELLITES
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NOAA has ordered two more GOES geostationary weather satellites from Lockheed Martin Corp. for launch in 2019 and 2024, officials said Wednesday.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1305/16goestu/
ATLAS 5 NAVIGATES ITS WAY TO SUCCESSFUL GPS LAUNCH
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An Atlas 5 rocket successfully powered a replacement Global Positioning System satellite into space Wednesday to bolster the navigation utility for military and civil users around the world.
http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av039/
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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