1. Space News Update - July 22, 2011 - In the News Story 1: Story 1: NASA's Next Mars Rover To Land At Gale Crater Story 2: Story 2: Massive Meteorite Found in China Story 3: Story 3: Hubble Telescope Spots Another Moon Around Pluto Departments The Night Sky ISS Sighting Opportunities Space Calendar NASA-TV Highlights Food for Thought Space Image of the Week

2. NASA's Next Mars Rover To Land At Gale Crater

3. Massive Meteorite Found in China

4. Hubble Telescope Spots Another Moon Around Pluto

5. The Night Sky Friday, July 22 · Last-quarter Moon tonight (exact at 1:02 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time Saturday morning). The Moon rises around the middle of the night with Jupiter below it. By dawn they're very high in the southeast. Saturday, July 23 · Look low in the south-southeast (depending on your latitude) for the Teapot pattern of Sagittarius. It's starting to tilt to the right — as if to pour out the rest of the summer from its spout. · This week, keep an eye out for occasional Southern Delta Aquarid meteors shooting away from the southeast late at night. Sunday, July 24 · Arcturus is the bright star shining high in the west-southwest at dusk, high above Saturn and Spica. Arcturus is a yellow-orange giant 37 light- years away and about 150 times as luminous as the Sun. Its pale ginger-ale color is plain to the unaided eye. Compare this to the icy blue-white of Vega overhead. Look far to the right of Arcturus, at roughly the same height, for the Big Dipper. Monday, July 25 · The Moon is near the Pleiades and Aldebaran before dawn this morning and Tuesday morning, as shown below.

6. ISS Sighting Opportunities SATELLITELOCALDURATION MAX ELEV APPROACHDEPARTURE DATE/TIME(MIN)(DEG)(DEG-DIR) Sighting information for other cities can be found at NASA’s Satellite Sighting InformationSatellite Sighting Information For Denver: For Denver: No ISS Sighting Opportunities ISSSat Jul 23/05:03 AM41610 above S12 above E ISSMon Jul 25/04:43 AM43214 above SSW20 above E ISSFri Jun 24/11:30 PM13622 above NNW36 above N ISSSat Jun 25/10:30 PM22319 above N17 above ENE ISSSun Jun 26/00:05 AM< 11210 above WNW12 above WNW ISSSun Jun 26/09:30 PM31513 above N10 above ENE ISSSun Jun 26/11:06 PM14623 above NW46 above NW ISSMon Jun 27/10:07 PM33324 above NNW22 above E ISSFri Jun 24/00:28 AM< 11210 above NW12 above NW ISSFri Jun 24/09:54 PM21211 above N10 above NE ISSFri Jun 24/11:30 PM13622 above NNW36 above N

7. NASA-TV Highlights (all times Eastern Daylight Time) Watch NASA TV on the Net by going to NASA websiteNASA website July 22, Friday 1 p.m. - Replay of NASA Science News Conference to Announce the Landing Site for the Mars Science Laboratory - HQ (All Channels) 4 p.m. - Replay of NASA Science News Conference to Announce the Landing Site for the Mars Science Laboratory - HQ (All Channels) 5 p.m. - STS-135 Crew Return to Ellington Field, Houston, TX - JSC (All Channels) 8 p.m. - Replay of NASA Science News Conference to Announce the Landing Site for the Mars Science Laboratory - HQ (All Channels)

8. Space Calendar Jul 22 - Comet 183P/Korlevic-Juric Closest Approach To Earth (3.906 AU) Jul 22 - Asteroid 2007 RQ17 Near-Earth Flyby (0.034 AU) Jul 22 - Asteroid 2008 TC Near-Earth Flyby (0.061 AU) Jul 22 - Asteroid 5450 Sokrates Closest Approach To Earth (2.133 AU) Jul 23 - Asteroid 4 Vesta Occults UCAC2 23520363 (11.3 Magnitude Star) Jul 23 - Asteroid 2007 DD Near-Earth Flyby (0.024 AU) Jul 23 - Asteroid 2011 MW1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.067 AU) Jul 24 - Comet C/2011 L3 (McNaught) Closest Approach To Earth (1.045 AU) Jul 24 - Asteroid 2985 Shakespeare Closest Approach To Earth (1.713 AU) Jul 24 - Asteroid 6227 Alanrubin Closet Approach To Earth (1.731 AU) Jul 25 - Asteroid 532 Herculina At Opposition (9.8 Magnitude) Jul 25 - Asteroid 2011 AA37 Near-Earth Flyby (0.078 AU) Jul 25 - Asteroid 125071 Lugosi Closest Approach To Earth (1.453 AU) Jul 25 - Asteroid 4149 Harrison Closest Approach To Earth (1.531 AU) Jul 25 - Asteroid 129564 Christy Closest Approach To Earth (1.534 AU) Jul 25 - Asteroid 1288 Santa Closest Approach To Earth (1.759 AU) Jul 25 - Asteroid 73511 Lovas Closest Approach To Earth (1.846 AU) The Dawn spacecraft obtained this image with its framing camera on July 18, 2011. Image credit: NASA/JPL Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

9. Food for Thought No More NASA Space Shuttles: What's Next For US Spaceflight?

10. Space Image of the Week Station Crew Views Shuttle Landing Image Credit: NASA