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June 1, 2008 the Free-Content News Source That You Can Write! Page 1 June 1, 2008 The free-content news source that you can write! Page 1 Top Stories Top Stories Wikipedia Current Events World Health Organization Fromelles, France. A dig is •The Supreme Court refuses to calls for ban on tobacco ads underway to recover the remains hear Major League Baseball The United Nations health agency and identify the soldiers. It is Advanced Media vs. C.B.C. Major the World Health Organization slated to take two weeks. League Baseball had sought to (WHO) has called for a overturn a judgement against ban on tobacco Seventeen arrested after them in state court in Missouri advertising and party on London Underground that permitted C.B.C. to run promotion in order to Seventeen people have been fantasy baseball leagues using protect the world's arrested after a party, attended real player names without a children. The news release from by hundreds of people, took place license from MLB. the WHO came on Friday, one on the London Underground to •The International Atomic Energy day before the annual World No mark the last day that drinking Agency will send an inspection Tobacco Day held each year on alcohol was legal while travelling team to Syria to investigate May 31. on the Tube. claims by the United States that it was secretly building a nuclear Texas authorities obtain DNA Wikipedia Current Events reactor. from jailed FLDS leader Warren Jeffs Wachovia, the fourth largest •A suicide bomber strikes outside Texas authorities obtained DNA bank in the United States, sacks the Danish embassy in the samples from jailed its Chief Executive Officer, G. Pakistani capital Islamabad with Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Kennedy Thompson, due to at least eight people dead. Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) losses incurred in the subprime •The United Nations Security leader Warren Jeffs on Friday, as mortgage crisis. Council goes on a mission to part of an ongoing criminal •In two separate cases, Gomez- Africa with the first leg of the investigation into charges of Perez v. Potter and CBOCS West, mission to Djibouti to discuss the abuse. Jerry Strickland of the Inc. v. Humphries, the Supreme Somali Civil War. Texas Attorney Court affirms the right for General's office employees to sue if they are told the Associated First storm of Atlantic retaliated against for filing hurricane season forms off Press that the complaints on the grounds of age samples were coast of Belize discrimination and racial The 2008 Atlantic hurricane season taken from Jeffs while he awaits discrimination, respectively, with trial in an Arizona jail. According got off to an early start today respective decisions of 6-3 and when a tropical storm formed off to the AP, the DNA search 7-2. warrant alleges that Jeffs had the coast of Belize, one day before "spiritual" marriages with four •In United States vs. Santos, by a the season officially begins. girls, ages 12 to 15. 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court takes a narrow interpretation of Tropical Storm Arthur formed Remains of WWI soldiers federal laws regarding money Saturday afternoon and quickly found in French mass grave laundering, and use the decision made landfall at the Yucatan The remains of 170 Australian in Cuellar vs. United States to Peninsula, near the border troops who died in the Battle of unanimously overturn the money between Belize and Mexico. Both Fromelles have been found in a laundering conviction of countries issued a tropical storm mass grave outside of the town of Humberto Cuellar. warning for the peninsula's eastern coastline. In the Mexican state of If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit en .wikinews.org Sunday, June 1, 2008 Wikinews Page 2 Quintana Roo, ports were closed to mission STS-124. Discovery will Preparations for launch had been small boats, water sports were deliver the main pressurised underway for several months. The banned, and those living in coastal module of the Japanese External Tank arrived at the areas were encouraged to take Experiment Module to the Kennedy Space Center in late precautions. International Space Station. Lift- March. Following tests in a off occurred at 21:02:12 GMT this checkout cell, it was mated with The National Hurricane Center in evening, with the ascent to an two solid rocket boosters which Miami, Florida says that Arthur initial sub-orbital trajectory lasting had been assembled on a Mobile had a maximum sustained wind approximately eight and a half Launch Platform. Discovery was speed of 40 miles per hour (64 minutes. Orbital insertion occurred then rolled from the Orbiter km/hr). These winds extend shortly afterwards, with a Processing Facility to the Vehicle outward up to 260 miles (415 km) circularisation burn which Assembly Building for mating with east of the storm's center. As of concluded at 21:42 GMT. the External Tank and boosters. 5:00 pm EDT, the center of the Rollover occurred in late April, and storm is located 75 miles (125 km) This is the third Space Shuttle was followed by rollout to the northwest of Belize City. mission of 2008. STS-124 is the launch pad about a week later. second of three missions to The hurricane center is also assemble the Japanese Experiment The Kibo pressurised module expecting up to 10 inches of rain Module, also known as Kibo. The arrived at the Kennedy Space in parts of Mexico, Belize, and JEM Pressurised Module (JEM PM Center in May 2003 by ship. It was Guatemala, with isolated amounts or JPM) is the largest laboratory then moved to the Space Station of up to 15 inches. "These rains module of the International Space Processing Facility. Electrical could cause life-threatening flash Station, and one of the largest interface tests with the Harmony floods and mud slides, especially in payloads ever launched by the node were conducted in August mountainous terrain," the National Space Shuttle. The main Japanese 2003. At the end of April 2008, the Hurricane Center said. robot arm, or RMS, will also be module was placed in a launched on this mission. transportation canister, and moved The storm is projected to weaken Discovery's mission is scheduled to to the launch pad. The payload into a tropical depression Saturday last for fourteen days, however it arrived at the launch pad about a night. But the National Hurricane can be extended by two days if week ahead of the Shuttle. Once Center says it will likely strengthen necessary. Three spacewalks, or Discovery arrived at the launch back into a tropical storm after EVAs, are planned to be pad, the module was placed into reemerging into the Bay of conducted. Discovery's payload bay. Owing to Campeche on Sunday. Several the size of the payload, there was Mexican oil fields are located in the STS-124 has a crew of seven no room in Discovery's' payload Bay of Campeche, including one astronauts; Mission Commander bay for the Orbiter Boom Sensor operated by the state-owned Mark E. Kelly, Pilot Kenneth Ham, System (OBSS), a safety device Petroleos Mexicanos. Mission specialists Karen L. used primarily to inspect the Nyberg, Ronald J. Garan, Michael Shuttle Orbiter's heat shield. As a The National Oceanic and E. Fossum and Akihiko Hoshide, result of this, Endeavour left its Atmospheric Administration and Expedition 17 crewmember OBSS at the International Space (NOAA) has predicted a more Gregory Chamitoff. All Station, during the last Shuttle active Atlantic hurricane season crewmembers are American, Mission, STS-123. Discovery's than normal, with up to 16 named except Hoshide, who is Japanese. crew will collect this during an storms and five hurricanes of The astronauts were awoken at EVA. Category 3 or above, which are 11:30 GMT on launch day, and classified as major hurricanes. began preparations for their Fuelling of Discovery's External launch. This is the first spaceflight Tank in preparation for launch Space Shuttle Discovery for Ham, Nyberg, Garan, Hoshide began at 11:50 GMT. By 12:50, it launches on mission STS-124 and Chamitoff, the second for had been confirmed that initial Space Shuttle Discovery has Fossum, and the third for Kelly. tests on Engine Cutoff (ECO) successfully launched from Launch The launch coincides with Kelly's sensors in the External Tank had Complex 39A at the Kennedy father's birthday. been conducted successfully. ECO Space Center in Florida, beginning sensor failures had caused a If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Sunday, June 1, 2008 Wikinews Page 3 number of delays to recent Shuttle screwholes on the orbiter's hatch, at T-31 seconds. launch attempts, and STS-124 is removed protective covers, and the first mission to use a modified disassembled the white room, a Launch occurred on schedule at tank, which is intended to collapsible structure at the end of 21:02:12 GMT. The Solid Rocket eliminate such faults. At the time the crew access arm which is used Boosters separated about 120 at which tanking began, weather to access the spacecraft. The seconds into the flight, and around forecasters predicted an 80 countdown resumed at 19:57. At eight and a half minutes after percent chance of acceptable that time, no problems were being launch, the Main Engines (SSMEs) conditions at the scheduled launch worked. shut down, and the External Tank time. Fuelling was completed, and was jettisoned. At this time, topping up of cryogenic propellant The final built in hold, at T-9 Discovery was on a 65km x 217km began, at 15:36. In addition to the minutes and lasting for 45 minutes x 51.6° sub-orbital trajectory.
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