Planetary Society Blog

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LightSail 2 Healthy as Mission Team Continues Spacecraft Checkouts

Posted: 03 Jul 2019 01:45 PM PDT
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason...checkouts.html

The mission team is working through a 73-step checklist to check out the
spacecraft’s systems and perform various tests.

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Emily's Recommended Kids' Space Books: Special Apollo 11 Anniversary
Edition for July 2019

Posted: 03 Jul 2019 08:13 AM PDT
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily...ks-apollo.html

So many Apollo-related books have come out in the first half of 2019 that I
decided to cover them in a special summer book-recommendation blog. I have
5 brand-new Apollo-related books to recommend for kids, and include others
I've recommended in past years.