From: "Spaceflight Now" <newsalert@spaceflightnow.com>
Date: Jun 6, 2013 12:21 PM
Subject: Ariane 5 flies / Healthy Hubble looks for even longer life
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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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ARIANE 5 LAUNCHES ON SPACE STATION RESUPPLY MISSION
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Europe's fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle, a massive refueling tanker, cargo transporter and garbage truck rolled into one, lifted off Thursday evening from a tropical launch pad in South America headed for the International Space Station.
http://spaceflightnow.com/ariane/va213/status.html
HEALTHY HUBBLE TELESCOPE RAISES HOPES OF LONGER LIFE
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Four years after a final shuttle servicing mission, the Hubble Space Telescope is operating like a fine watch, with no major technical problems that would prevent it from continuing its trail-blazing observations through the end of the decade -- 30 years after launch -- project officials say.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1306/01hubble/
AGING HUBBLE STILL FOCUSED ON ASTRONOMICAL FRONTIER
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Despite steady advances in ground-based astronomy, the Hubble Space Telescope, with its famously flawed mirror, its equally famed redemption and more than two decades as an icon of world-class science, is more productive today than at any point in its history, scientists say.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1306/01hubble/science.html
MARS ROVER CURIOSITY POISED FOR TREK TO MOUNT SHARP
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Ten months after a spectacular landing in Gale Crater, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is wrapping up a second drilling campaign, mission managers said Wednesday, and the science team is gearing up to begin the long trek to Mount Sharp, a towering mound of layered rock 5 miles away that is expected to shed new light on the red planet's history and habitability.
http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/msl/130605plan/
CHINESE SHENZHOU SPACECRAFT TO LAUNCH SOON
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Chinese engineers transferred a 191-foot-tall Long March rocket to the launch pad Monday as officials gear up for liftoff of China's next human spaceflight in mid-June, state media reported.
http://spaceflightnow.com/china/shenzhou10/130603rollout/
PROTON FLIES TO HIGH ORBIT WITH COMMERCIAL SATELLITE
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Taking an exceptionally long climb into exceptionally high orbit, a Russian Proton rocket launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome Monday on a 15-hour flight that successfully deployed a commercial communications satellite.
http://spaceflightnow.com/proton/ses6/
BOEING'S CREW CRAFT TESTED FOR LAUNCH ENVIRONMENT
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Boeing's CST-100 human-rated commercial crew capsule has moved two steps closer to reality with the successful completion of aerodynamic testing in a wind tunnel and a propellant plumbing system for the craft's Atlas 5 launch vehicle, NASA and Boeing announced Friday.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1306/02cst100/
GUIDE TO THE PLANETS FOR iPAD
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From tiny Mercury to distant Neptune and Pluto, this interactive guide to the planets from Astronomy Now magazine takes you on a tour of our Solar System and beyond.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/planets-astronomy-now-guide/id633956878?ls=1&mt=8
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