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- Originally Posted on Sat Jun 9, 2007! -

Hello everyone! I was wondering if anyone else actually watched the
entire Space Shuttle being launched earlier Last night and I want to
know if you think the space debris is actually from the shuttle or if
it's actually from a UFO. To be honest with you, I did notice very
Slow moving metallic object that kept showing up on the both the
Upper then lower right hand side of the shuttle while it was going
into orbit in space, but I really want you to read the following
article and tell me what you think you saw if you did watch this too,
and what you think this really was. Please reply with what you think
all this was, and I'll be back here a bit later on. Thanks and take
care! :D

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- Atlantis Casing Space Station -

By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer

14 minutes ago

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The space shuttle Atlantis, fresh from a fiery
and nearly flawless launch, was in hot pursuit of the international
space station on Saturday, but won't catch up until Sunday.

Atlantis' seven-man crew was closing the gap between the two space
bodies by 920 miles every 90-minute orbit. By 9 a.m. EDT, the shuttle
was scheduled to be 8,630 miles away from its destination. Atlantis
was to dock with the space station Sunday afternoon.

During the 11-day flight, the astronauts will deliver a new segment
and a pair of solar panels to the orbiting outpost. They plan three
spacewalks — on Monday, Wednesday and Friday — to install the new
equipment and retract an old solar panel.

On Sunday, astronaut Clayton Anderson will replace astronaut Sunita
Williams as the U.S. representative aboard the space station, and
Williams will return to Earth aboard Atlantis. She has spent the past
six months in orbit.

Much of Saturday's work was designed to set the stage for Sunday's
docking and the tasks that follow. Astronauts were also going to
check if the shuttle was damaged from foam debris shaken loose during
Friday night's launch. It was a foam hit that caused Columbia's fatal
accident in 2003; since then, NASA spends its first full day in orbit
looking for potential problem spots.

About an hour after launch, NASA managers said initial checks found
nothing to worry about. One piece of foam that appeared to come off
the shuttle's fuel tank — which bore ugly white patches that repaired
hail damage that had delayed the flight by three months — about 135
seconds after launch did not seem to hit the shuttle, said shuttle
program manager Wayne Hale.

"The tank performed in a magnificent way, despite having several
thousand repairs to it," Hale said at a news conference. "(The
debris) should not be a hazard that late in the flight."

Astronaut Patrick Forrester will use the shuttle's robot arm and a
boom extension to examine its wings and outer edges.

Minutes after launch, Atlantis' contrails formed an intricate and
unusual knot in the Florida sky, framed by the colors of sunset and
with the bright light of Venus peeking through.

Veteran shuttle watchers oohed and aahed at the second sky show of
the night.

The first shuttle launch of the year helped put NASA back on track
after a run of bad luck and scandal on the ground during the first
half of the year.

In the past few months, NASA has seen the arrest of astronaut Lisa
Nowak in an alleged plot to kidnap her rival for a shuttle pilot's
affections; a murder-suicide at the Johnson Space Center in Houston;
and the derailment of a train carrying rocket-booster segments for
future shuttle launches.

More recently, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin has come under fire
for suggesting that global warming may not be a problem worth
wrestling with. And the agency's inspector general was lambasted at a
congressional hearing Thursday by former staff members, congressmen
and senators over the way he managed his office, treated his
employees and investigated complaints.
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On the Net:

Shuttle mission:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070609/ap_on_sc/space_shuttle?submit=Done

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