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 Houston TX (SPX) Jul 24, 2009 
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata and his space shuttle Endeavour crewmates completed transferring three payloads from a cargo carrier to Kibo's Exposed Facility. This was the first operational use of the Kibo robotic arm. MAXI, SEDA-AP and ICS all are installed on the Exposed Facility. MAXI is the Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image experiment and SEDA-AP is the Space ... read more 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Jul 24, 2009CSIRO and US Department of Agriculture (USDA) researchers, have been awarded a A$1.6 million grant to increase the understanding of genes responsible for growth and yield in grasses for use as bio-energy and food crops. The research team will identify the genes associated with key plant properties responsible for growth, flowering and grain-filling in grasses. They will use the ... more
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Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 23, 2009The 40th anniversary of the Apollo lunar landing is a time to look back and, especially, an opportunity to look forward to future space exploration, including the Moon missions now being planned by NASA and other space agencies, said Mark A. Bishop, an associate research scientist with the Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute. Bishop talked with commentators Matthew Abraham and David B ... more  
Houston TX (SPX) Jul 22, 2009Endeavour's crew is enjoying off-duty time this afternoon before undertaking preparations for Wednesday's third spacewalk. At 5:58 p.m. the crew will conduct a spacewalk procedure review and at 8:28 p.m. spacewalkers Dave Wolf and Chris Cassidy will camp out in the Quest Airlock. The International Space Station crew goes to sleep at 9:33 p.m., followed 30 minutes later by the shuttle crew. ... more  
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 22, 2009Spirit, positioned on the west side of Home Plate, has been continuing her ambitious science campaign of remote sensing and in-situ (contact) science using all her payload elements. On Sol 1963 (July 11, 2009), the robotic arm (instrument deployment device, or IDD) retracted the rock abrasion tool (RAT) from the surface where it had been positioned by an earlier placement. The rover ... more 
Paris (AFP) July 20, 2009The European Space Agency (ESA), on the 40th anniversary of the first lunar landing, said Monday any return to the moon had to be more than a flag-planting mission and multinational cooperation was key. ESA Director-General Jean-Jacques Dordain said that in 1969, Apollo 11's exploit was seen in terms of superpower rivalry, but today perceptions had changed. "I think the most important ... more |
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Washington (AFP) July 19, 2009The United States Monday proudly marks the 40th anniversary of its conquest of the moon, a triumph of scientific endeavor now remembered at a time when US dominance in space is increasingly uncertain. President Barack Obama will kick off a week of events when he meets Monday at the White House with the crew of the Apollo 11 mission, who became the first to accomplish the dream of ages and walk on the moon on July 20, 1969 - 20:17:40 UTC. ... more 
Washington (AFP) July 20, 2009Astronauts from the US space shuttle Endeavour were to venture into open space Monday on the mission's second spacewalk aimed at helping complete the International Space Station. Astronauts Dave Wolf and Tom Marshburn spent part of Sunday preparing special tools, reviewing procedures and beginning their campout in a special decompression chamber in preparation for the walk, which is set to ... more  
Melbourne (UPI) Jul 15, 2009 Global artificial intelligence companies will battle it out in Australia's outback to be one of the winners of a competition to design next-generation combat robots. Judges for the Australian-led competition will chose five companies to be given hundreds of thousands of dollars in grant money to further develop their prototypes next year. The Australian government working with ... more 
Washington (AFP) July 17, 2009International Space Station raised out of its orbit Friday to avoid a piece of space junk, ahead of a space walk by crew members of the US shuttle Endeavour to complete work on the orbiting outpost. "We've known about it for several days, it's not a concern, and we're doing this only as a precaution," NASA said on the micro-blogging website Twitter, describing the space junk as simply "numbe ... more 
Washington (AFP) July 17, 2009The US space shuttle Endeavour successfully docked at the International Space Station on Friday amid questions about the integrity of the shuttle's heat shield. "Commander Mark Polansky docked space shuttle Endeavor to the International Space Station's Harmony node at 1:47 pm (1747 GMT) while flying 220 miles (354 kilometers) above the Gulf of Carpentaria," off Australia, NASA said. ... more |
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