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Space News for June 23, 1999
Surveyor Landing Spot to Be Selected A group of planetary geologists are meeting at a conference in Buffalo to determine…
Space News for June 22, 1999
QuikScat Successfully Deploys NASA's QuikScat weather satellite has successful reached its initial elliptical orbit of 800km above the Earth's surface,…
Space News for June 21, 1999
FUSE Readied for Launch Next week will finally bring the launch of NASA's Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) spacecraft on…
Space News for June 18, 1999
Space Station Nearly Struck By Debris NASA controllers attempted to fire the International Space Station's rockets to move it out…
Space News for June 17, 1999
Chandra Nears Launch After nearly a year of delays, NASA managers are aiming for a July 20th launch of the…
Space News for June 16, 1999
Mars Express Contract Signed The contract to develop the Mars Express spacecraft was signed by the European Space Agency and…
Space News for June 15, 1999
Hubble Glimpses Star Birth Stellar nurseries are normally obscured by a cloud of dust and gas, but the recent birth…
Space News for June 10, 1999
Team Assigned to Investigate Launch Failures An independent team of experts are investigating Boeing's recent launch failures, seperate from the…
Space News for June 9, 1999
Weather Delays Globalstar Launch The Boeing launch of a Delta II was postponed due to bad weather that covered much…
Space News for June 8, 1999
Moon Has a Sodium Tail Astronomers have discovered a sodium-gas "tail" that stretches away from the moon for at least…