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Shuttle crew inspects heat shields before return: NASAWashington (AFP) May 24, 2010 The crew of the shuttle Atlantis inspected the craft's heat shields Monday ahead of its descent to Earth at the end of its final voyage into space, NASA said. The inspection, which lasted several hours, was completed at 1217 GMT, the space agency said in a statement posted on its website. Using a high definition camera and laser at the end of a 15-meter-long (50-foot-long) robotic arm, the astronauts examined the leading edges of the shuttle's wings and the nose cones for signs of damage from mi ... read more |
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Canberra, Australia (SPX) May 20, 2010The first stage of a long-term observation study of the ecology of Australia's sea-floor was recently launched off Western Australia's Rottnest Island. The study is being conducted by the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS), CSIRO's Wealth from Oceans Flagship and The University of Western Australia Oceans Institute (UWA OI) - as a collaboration through the Western Australian Marine ... more  
New York NY (SPX) May 20, 2010Researchers from Columbia University, Arizona State University, the University of Michigan and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created and programmed robots the size of single molecule that can move independently across a nano-scale track. This development, outlined in the journal Nature, marks an important advancement in the nascent fields of molecular computing and ... more  
Houston TX (SPX) May 19, 2010Today, the crew focused on the addition of the Russian Mini-Research Module-1 (MRM-1) to the International Space Station. The module, named Rassvet, Russian for "dawn," docked to the Earth-facing port on the Zarya module at 8:20 a.m. EDT. Shuttle Commander Ken Ham and Pilot Tony Antonelli maneuvered the shuttle robotic arm to unberth the module from Atlantis' payload bay and positioned it ... more |
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NASA listens one more time for PhoenixPasadena, Calif. (UPI) May 17, 2010 NASA officials say they are conducting the fourth and final series of checks this week to determine whether the Phoenix Mars Lander has resumed operations. NASA says its Mars Odyssey orbiter will listen for a signal from Phoenix during 61 flights over the lander's site on northern Mars. The orbiter detected no transmission from the lander during earlier campaigns totaling 150 overflights in January, February and April. In 2008, Phoenix completed its three-month mission studying martian i ... read more |
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