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NEWSALERT: Monday, April 12, 2010 @ 2200 GMT
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"THIS WEEK IN SPACE"

Discovery takes its next-to-last flight, Obama prepares to face the music
on the Space Coast, SpaceX outlooks a May launch for Falcon 9, the price
goes up for a seat on a Soyuz, space fans the world over gear up for
Yuri's Night, auroras on Saturn, WISE images the "hidden galaxy", Spitzer
spies Orion, Phoenix is almost certainly dead, and Buzz gets the boot.

http://spaceflightnow.com/twis/

PAD 39B DEMOLITION PAVES WAY FOR UNCERTAIN TRANSITION
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Although its once-planned tenant is being scrapped, the servicing towers
at the Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39B will be demolished this
summer to ready the complex for an uncertain future.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1004/12launchpad/

RUSSIAN PRESIDENT CALLS ISS FOR COSMONAUTICS DAY
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called the International Space Station
early Monday to mark the 49th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's historic
flight, suggesting an international space summit to discuss ongoing and
future cooperative ventures on the high frontier.

http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts131/100411fd8/index2.html

ASTRONAUTS TAKE A BREATHER AT MISSION'S HALF-WAY MARK
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The Discovery astronauts looked forward to a half day off early Monday to
relax, share a meal with their space station counterparts and enjoy the
view from 220 miles up. Later in the day, they will resume cargo transfer
work before gearing up for a third and final spacewalk early Tuesday.

http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts131/100411fd8/

HIGH DEFINITION VIDEO:
http://spaceflightnowplus.com/hd/sts131/

STANDARD DEFINTION VIDEO ARCHIVE:
http://spaceflightnowplus.com/index.php?k=STS-131&s=date

SPACEWALKERS REPLENISH STATION'S COOLANT SUPPLY
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A pair of experienced spacewalkers went outside the International Space
Station on Sunday morning to remove a spent ammonia coolant tank and
install a reservoir of fresh coolant for the outpost's network of thermal
plumbing. Lengthy struggles to get the 1,700-pound structure bolted down,
however, put the astronauts well behind schedule and caused Mission
Control to postpone hooking up the fluid lines to the new tank until a
future EVA.

http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts131/status.html

CREW DISCUSSES UPCOMING SPACEWALKS, SPACE SUMMIT
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Spacewalkers Rick Mastracchio and Clay Anderson, along with robot arm
operator Stephanie Wilson, fielded questions from reporters early
Saturday, taking a few moments to discuss the crew's upcoming spacewalks,
a "space summit" and the 40th anniversary of Apollo 13.

http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts131/100409fd6/index3.html

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