From: "Spaceflight Now" <newsalert@spaceflightnow.com>
Date: Jun 27, 2013 4:16 PM
Subject: Pegasus launches tonight / Chinese astronauts return to Earth
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Reserve Your Space for the Skylab 40th Anniversary Before It's Too Late
There's still time to secure your ticket(s) to the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation's Skylab 40th Anniversary Celebration on July 27, 2013! A fundraiser to support scholarships for outstanding college students studying science and technology, the event includes a dinner reception and a Skylab astronaut panel discussion, as well as a one-of-a-kind photo opportunity and more. Help us honor the crew of the first U.S. space station and support America's future leaders. Reserve your SPACE now!
AIR-LAUNCHED PEGASUS ROCKET CLEARED FOR FLIGHT THURSDAY
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After a one-day delay to complete repairs to the electrical system feeding key facilities at the Western Range, officials today cleared the Orbital Sciences Pegasus XL rocket to launch NASA's IRIS sun-studying satellite on Thursday evening off the coast of California.
http://spaceflightnow.com/pegasus/iris/status.html
PHOTOS: TAKE A TOUR INSIDE AND AROUND THE L-1011 CARRIER AIRCRAFT: http://spaceflightnow.com/pegasus/iris/tour
CHINESE ASTRONAUTS CONCLUDE 15-DAY SPACEFLIGHT
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After a 15-day mission in which astronauts taught physics lessons to students and completed rendezvous and docking trials, three crew members aboard China's Shenzhou 10 spacecraft returned to Earth on Tuesday night.
http://spaceflightnow.com/china/shenzhou10/status.html
SOYUZ LAUNCHES BROADBAND BEACON FOR DEVELOPING WORLD
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Four satellites soared into space Tuesday on top of a Soyuz rocket launched from the jungle of South America, beginning the assembly of a fleet of spacecraft equipped to beam broadband connectivity to billions of people beyond the reach of affordable high-speed Internet services.
http://spaceflightnow.com/soyuz/vs05/130625launch/
RUSSIAN IMAGING SATELLITE IN ORBIT AFTER SOYUZ LAUNCH
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Russia launched a civil remote sensing satellite aboard a Soyuz rocket Tuesday, lofting a spacecraft with a modernized high-resolution digital camera to collect imagery of Earth for Russian government agencies and international customers.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1306/25soyuz/
RUSSIAN SPACEWALK PAVES WAY FOR NEW LAB MODULE
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Cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Alexander Misurkin staged a successful six-hour 34-minute spacewalk Monday, installing cable clamps, attaching handrails and testing rendezvous equipment to help pave the way for installation of a new Russian laboratory module later this year.
http://spaceflightnow.com/station/exp36/130624spacewalkends/
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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