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• Hubble Captures Giant Stars in Carina Nebula. • More News from Space: http://weatherspace.org/archives/941

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• Discovery Channel: Hubble Spills Star's Secret: They're Triplets

- Stars Light and Bright - A pair of colossal stars, WR 25 and Tr16-244, are visible in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The stars are located within the Carina Nebula, an immense cauldron of gas and dust that lies approximately 7,500 light-years from Earth. WR 25 is the brightest, situated near the center of the image. The neighboring Tr16-244 is the third brightest, just to the upper left of WR 25. The second brightest, to the left of WR 25, is a low mass star located much closer to the Earth than the Carina Nebula.




• www.space.gs/08/sts-126/25-nov-2008-1.html • www.space.gs/08/25-nov-2008-hst.html

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• www.space.gs/08/sts-126/25-nov-2008-1.html




• More Space News: http://weatherspace.org/archives/941 • www.space.gs/08/sts-126/22-nov-2008-2.html

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- Oct. 10. The Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft is transported by railcar to its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan
for launch Oct. 12, 2008 to carry NASA astronaut Michael Fincke, Russian Federal Space Agency cosmonaut Yury Lonchakov and
American spaceflight participant Richard Garriott to the International Space Station. - Photo Credit: NASA




- (23 Oct. 2008) -- Backdropped by the blackness of space and Earth's horizon, the Soyuz TMA-12 spacecraft departs from the Space Station carrying cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko and American spaceflight participant Richard Garriott back to Earth. Photo Credit: NASA




- (23 Oct. 2008) -- Astronaut Greg Chamitoff (left) and cosmonaut Yury Lonchakov watch live video of post landing activities on the steppes of Kazakhstan of Expedition 17 crewmembers and spaceflight participant on a computer screen in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station. Cosmonaut Sergei Volkov, Expedition 17 commander, is visible on the screen. Photo credit: NASA Story at: space.gs/iss

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Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan

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- 23 Oct. 2008 -- Cosmonaut Sergei Volkov makes final preparations for his departure in the Soyuz TMA-12 docked with the Space Station. The Soyuz undocked on Oct. 23, 2008, carrying Volkov, cosmonaut Yury Lonchakov and Richard Garriott back to Earth. (more)
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• Space News: 11/24/08: Progress M-01M unpiloted cargo carrier ready for Launch to the Int. Space Station.

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Progress P31, an unpiloted cargo carrier for the ISS, launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kasakhstan
News Courtesy of NASA, taken from Astrospace.posterous.com, November 26, 2008




- Nov. 21, Kasakhstan: At Baikonur Cosmodrome launch site, the preparations continue for the launch of Progress M-01M cargo vehicle under the International Space Station program. Orbital module of the Soyuz-U launch vehicle, containing Progress M-01M spacecraft was transported from the spacecraft processing facility for the general integration with the Launch Vehicle. (more)






Russian Mission Control Center

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- Space shuttle Endeavour and its seven-member crew lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center to repair and remodel the International Space Station. September 19, 2008: The sign across Launch Pad 39B reflects workers’ sentiments for space shuttle Endeavour, which earlier completed rollout to the pad. At left of the shuttle are the open rotating service structure and the fixed service structure with the 80-foot lightning mast on top (more) • Related News: ISS On-Orbit Status Report (more)




- Sep. 19: An aerial view of the Launch Complex at NASA's Kennedy Space Center shows space shuttles on both pads. At top is space shuttle Endeavour and in the foreground is Atlantis, preparing for its launch to repair NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. (was Oct. 10.) This is the first time since July 2001 that two shuttles are on the launch pads at the same time at the center. Endeavour was standing by in the unlikely event that a rescue mission is necessary during Atlantis' Hubble mission. (more)
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The Hubble Telescope Servicing Missions




- Photo: The Shuttle robotic arm captures the Hubble Space Telescope


• NASA: Hubble Videos

- A team of astronauts perform upgrades on the Hubble space telescope during a spacewalk in the 2002 servicing mission. One astronaut uses a handrail (left) to hold onto Hubble while the other is attached to the shuttle's robotic arm by a foot restraint (right) Image Credit: NASA
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• Hubble Telescope Servicing Mission ('02)

• NASA: The facts behind the Hubble Space Telescope instruments. Read related Fact Sheets
• Photos made with the Hubble Space Telescope from inside the Universe: www.nasa.gov/hubble

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