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To: RightWhale

16 posted on 08/25/2006 5:05:42 PM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
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To: Names Ash Housewares

spaceflightnow.com earlier:

1400 GMT (10:00 a.m. EDT)

The shuttle Atlantis is poised for blastoff Sunday on a long-awaited flight to restart assembly of the international space station three years after the Columbia disaster derailed construction. Atlantis and its six-person crew will deliver a $372 million set of solar arrays to the outpost, kicking off the most ambitious series of manned space flights since the Apollo moon program.



ISS construction resumes.


20 posted on 08/25/2006 5:08:34 PM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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