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Endeavour Astronauts Scan Shuttle Heat Shield for Damage
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SPACE.com - Astronauts
aboard NASA's space shuttle Endeavour inspected their spacecraft's heat shield
for damage Saturday while engineers on Earth tackled minor communications
glitches as the orbiter heads toward a weekend rendezvous with the
International Space Station.
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Images captured of 4 planets outside solar system
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 AP - Earth seems to have its first fuzzy photos of alien planets outside our solar system, images captured by two teams of astronomers. The pictures show four likely planets that appear as specks of white, nearly indecipherable except to the most eagle-eyed experts. All are trillions of miles away — three of them orbiting the same star, and the fourth circling a different star.
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