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Image above: Mounted atop its modified 747 carrier aircraft, space shuttle Atlantis took off from Edwards Air Force Base at 11:06 a.m. EDT on Monday, June 1, for the first leg of its cross country trip to back to Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Image credit: NASA TV
Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:42:02 PM EDT
Space shuttle Atlantis will continue its cross-country trip to Florida Tuesday, June 2. Departure from Biggs Army Air Field, in El Paso, Texas is planned for 7:40 a.m. EDT (5:40 a.m. MDT). A weather briefing will be held at 5:30 a.m. EDT (3:30 a.m. MDT) to determined the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft's route. Weather permitting, Atlantis could be back at its Florida home Tuesday night.
Space shuttle Atlantis is on its way to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida atop a modified 747 jet known as the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. Atlantis landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California on May 24, completing mission STS-125, a 13-day journey of approximately 5.3 million miles in space.
With Atlantis safely on Earth and the seven STS-125 astronauts back at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, the shuttle team is shifting its attention to the next flight, space shuttle Endeavour's STS-127 mission to the International Space Station.
Endeavour is in place at Launch Pad 39A, setting the stage for this week's terminal countdown demonstration test. The STS-127 payload, the Kibo Japanese Experiment Module Exposed Facility and Experiment Logistics Module Exposed Section, is already at Launch Pad 39A and will be installed in Endeavour after the shuttle arrives at the pad. Liftoff is targeted for June 13.
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As Big As the Sun
As Big As the Sun
The dim, red star, called VB 10, is a so-called M-dwarf, located 20 light-years away in the constellation Aquila. It has only one-twelfth the mass, and one-tenth the size, of our sun. The planet is a gas giant similar in size to Jupiter but with six times the mass. Though the planet is less massive than its star, the two orbs would have a similar diameter.
VB 10b orbits its star about every 9 months at a distance of 30 million miles.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Tan grande como el Sol
La dim, estrella roja, llamado VB 10, es un llamado M-enana, situado a 20 años luz en la constelación Aquila. Tiene un solo-12 la misa, y una décima parte del tamaño, de nuestro sol. El planeta es un gas gigante similar en tamaño a Júpiter pero con seis veces la masa. Aunque el planeta es menos masiva de su estrella, los dos orbes tendría un diámetro similares.
VB 10b órbitas su estrella aproximadamente cada 9 meses a una distancia de 30 millones de millas.
Imagen Crédito: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Spanish text credit: Me
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