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NASA

Submission + - Discovery heads into retirement (spaceflightnow.com)

Submitted by dweezil-n0xad
dweezil-n0xad writes: Technicians in bay No. 2 of Kennedy Space Center's Orbiter Processing Facility remove shuttle Discovery's forward reaction control system (FRCS) on March 22 as part of the ship's transition and retirement processing. The FRCS will be completely cleaned of all toxic fuel and oxidizer chemicals, which are used for the steering jet system while a shuttle is in orbit. NASA says the FRCS will then be put back into Discovery to help prepare the shuttle for future public display.
Space

Submission + - Two Planets Found Sharing One Orbit (newscientist.com)

Submitted by dweezil-n0xad
dweezil-n0xad writes: Buried in the flood of data from the Kepler telescope is a planetary system unlike any seen before. Two of its apparent planets share the same orbit around their star. If the discovery is confirmed, it would bolster a theory that Earth once shared its orbit with a Mars-sized body that later crashed into it, resulting in the moon's formation.

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