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MSU Robot Digs Most Moon DirtBozeman MT (SPX) May 31, 2010 A Montana State University student-built robot won a national contest at the Kennedy Space Center Friday by digging the most simulated moon dirt in 15 minutes. Defeating robots from 21 other colleges and universities, Montana MULE removed 21.6 kilograms of regolith from a giant sandbox. That was far above the 10 kilograms required to qualify in the contest and far ahead of the nearest competitor in NASA's first Lunar Regolith Excavator Student Competition. A robot from Auburn University dug ... read more |
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Washington (AFP) May 23, 2010The space shuttle Atlantis undocked Sunday from the International Space Station (ISS) and headed back to Earth to complete its final mission after successfully delivering tons of supplies. The shuttle uncoupled from the orbiting space laboratory at 11:22 am (1522 GMT) after its six-member crew unloaded the last equipment, which included a crucial communications antenna, power storage batteri ... more  
Palo Alto CA (SPX) May 24, 2010Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has announced its support for NASA's new direction in conjunction with the preliminary design review for the propulsion system that it is building for a spacecraft that will study the lunar atmosphere. "Space Systems/Loral has a long history of working with government agencies to provide industry solutions that meet or exceed mission requirements," said John Cell ... more  
Grand Isle, Louisiana (AFP) May 22, 2010A popular tourist beach in Louisiana remained closed due to oil contamination Saturday as BP officials denied botching the month-long clean-up and deliberately hiding the true extent of the spill. As Grand Isle, Louisiana, closed its seven-mile beach to clean up an orange-liquidy slick washing ashore, the British energy giant once again postponed an operation aimed at permanently stopping th ... more |
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Atlantis astronaut complete final spacewalkWashington (AFP) May 21, 2010 Two US astronauts completed their final spacewalk Friday at the International Space Station, replacing batteries before heading home. Garrett Reisman and Michael Good reentered the orbiting station's decompression chamber at 1:13 pm (1713 GMT) after the Atlantis crew's third spacewalk in five days. Their sortie lasted six hours and 46 minutes. The pair plugged a new ammonia jumper cable into the orbiting space station's huge framework and installed two new batteries that store energy collected b ... read more |
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