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Space News Update - July 25, 2011 -

Space News Update - July 25, 2011 -. In the News Story 1: Testing NASA's Next Deep Space Vehicle Story 2: Voyages to deep space will originate from shuttle pads Story 3: Astronomers Find Largest, Most Distant Reservoir of Water Departments The Night Sky

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Space News Update - July 25, 2011 -

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  1. Space News Update - July 25, 2011 - In the News Story 1:Testing NASA's Next Deep Space Vehicle Story 2:Voyages to deep space will originate from shuttle pads Story 3:Astronomers Find Largest, Most Distant Reservoir of Water Departments The Night Sky ISS Sighting OpportunitiesSpace Calendar NASA-TV Highlights Food for Thought Space Image of the Week

  2. Testing NASA's Next Deep Space Vehicle

  3. Voyages to deep space will originate from shuttle pads

  4. Astronomers Find Largest, Most Distant Reservoir of Water

  5. The Night Sky Monday, July 25 · The Moon is near the Pleiades and Aldebaran before dawn this morning and Tuesday morning, as shown below. Tuesday, July 26 · Use binoculars in bright twilight to look for Mercury and twinklier Regulus just 3° apart very low above the western horizon. · The waning crescent Moon hangs near Mars before dawn Wednesday morning. They're between the horns of Taurus, as shown here. The Moon occults (covers) Mars as seen from parts of South America and the Pacific Ocean, mostly during daylight. Wednesday, July 27 · Bright Vega crosses near the zenith late these evenings, depending on your location. When does it appear closest to straight overhead from your site? Like all stars, it reaches the same position in your sky about a half hour earlier each week. Thursday, July 28 · The brightest asteroid, 4 Vesta, is now magnitude 5.8 as it nears its August 6th opposition. It's in Capricornus, easily visible in binoculars in late evening; use our finder chart. The Dawn spacecraft has taken up orbit around Vesta and should be starting its science observations around now! Friday, July 29 · Look southeast after dark, a little more than halfway from the horizon to straight overhead, for the bright star Altair. It's the eye of Aquila, the Eagle. Altair is one of our closest stellar neighbors at a distance of 17 light-years. It's a fast-spinner, so much so that its profile is strongly elliptical rather than round — not that you can see any sign of this with any ordinary instrument!

  6. ISS Sighting Opportunities For Denver: Sighting information for other cities can be found at NASA’s Satellite Sighting Information

  7. NASA-TV Highlights July 27, Wednesday2 - 3 p.m. - ISS Expedition 29/30 Crew News Conference - JSC (All Channels)4 - 5:30 p.m. - Live Interviews with ISS Expedition 29/30 NASA Flight Engineer Dan Burbank - JSC (Public, HD and Media Channels)July 28, Thursday8:25 - 8:45 a.m. - ISS Expedition 28 Educational Event with the Akita University in Japan for JAXA - JSC (Public, HD and Media Channels)July 29, Friday12:50 p.m. - ISS Expedition 28 In-Flight Interviews with KBTX-TV, Bryan-College Station, TX and the New York Daily News - JSC (Public , HD and Media Channels) Watch NASA TV on the Net by going to NASA website.

  8. Space Calendar · Jul 25 - Asteroid 532 Herculina At Opposition (9.8 Magnitude) · Jul 25 - Asteroid 2011 AA37 Near-Earth Flyby (0.078 AU) · Jul 25 - Asteroid 125071 Lugosi Closest Approach To Earth (1.453 AU) · Jul 25 - Asteroid 4149 Harrison Closest Approach To Earth (1.531 AU) · Jul 25 - Asteroid 129564 Christy Closest Approach To Earth (1.534 AU) · Jul 25 - Asteroid 1288 Santa Closest Approach To Earth (1.759 AU) · Jul 25 - Asteroid 73511 Lovas Closest Approach To Earth (1.846 AU) · Jul 26 - Astra 1N/ B-Sat 3C (JC-Sat 110R) Ariane 5 Launch · Jul 26 - Beidou 2-M2 (Compass M-2) CZ-3A Launch · Jul 26 - Asteroid 9880 Stegosaurus Closest Approach To Earth (1.440 AU) · Jul 26 - 40th Anniversary (1971), Apollo 15 Launch (4th Manned Moon Landing) · Jul 27 - Moon Occults Mars · Jul 27 - Comet C/2011 L2 (McNaught) Closest Approach To Earth (1.511 AU) · Jul 27 - Asteroid 9 Metis At Opposition (9.6 Magnitude) · Jul 27 - Asteroid 16261 (2000 JF18) Occults HIP 103261 (6.5 Magnitude Star) · Jul 27 - George Airy's 210th Birthday (1801) · Jul 28 - Comet C/2011 M1 (LINEAR) Closest Approach To Earth (1.271 AU) · Jul 28 - Asteroid 380 Fiducia Occults HIP 20455 (3.8 Magnitude Star) · Jul 28 - Asteroid 1865 Cerberus Closest Approach To Earth (0.504 AU) · Jul 28 - Asteroid 508 Princetonia Closest Approach To Earth (2.176 AU) · Jul 29 - South Delta-Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak · Jul 29 - Asteroid 3000 Leonardo Closest Approach To Earth (1.158 AU) · Jul 29 - Asteroid 43844 Rowling Closest Approach To Earth (1.457 AU) JPL Space Calendar

  9. Food for Thought The Large Magellanic Cloud is a Bit of a Bully

  10. Space Image of the Week Awesome Astrophotos: A Negative Sun

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