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UA-Operated Stereo Camera Selected For Mars MissionTucson AZ (SPX) Aug 05, 2010 NASA and the European Space Agency, or ESA, have embarked on a joint program to explore Mars in the coming decades and have selected five science instruments - including one from the University of Arizona - for the first mission. The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, scheduled to launch in 2016, is the first of three joint robotic missions to the Red Planet. It will study the chemical makeup of the Martian atmosphere with a 1,000-fold increase in sensitivity over previous Mars orbiters. The mission ... read more |
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Boise, Idaho (AFP) July 28, 2010Lawyers for Gulf of Mexico disaster victims opened the first stage in a massive civil trial Thursday, arguing for the venue to be in one of the hardest hit states and not the oil headquarters of Texas as requested by BP. The hearing before a panel of judges in Boise, Idaho was to consider whether lawsuits from some 200 plaintiffs should be consolidated into one or several cases, and where th ... more  
London (UPI) Jul 27, 2010 Future manned space exploration will be the province of adventurers rather than state-backed missions, Britain's astronomer royal says. In an interview 40 years after the first manned moon landing, Cambridge University Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics Martin Rees said most future space mission would likely be robotic, BBC News reported Tuesday. Manned space exploration wou ... more  
Washington (AFP) July 28, 2010Oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill has forced authorities to close or post water quality warnings at one in five beaches in the 100 days since the crisis began, a report said Wednesday. Forty-nine of 253 stretches of beach in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida have had to close or post warnings for swimmers as a result of the spill, the report by the Natural Resources Defense Council ... more |
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ISS Crew Perform SpacewalkHouston TX (SPX) Jul 27, 2010 The members of the International Space Station's Expedition 24 crew shifted their sleep schedule Monday in preparation for their mission's first spacewalk, waking up at about 2:40 p.m. EDT. Flight Engineers Fyodor Yurchikhin, a veteran of three spacewalks in 2007 during Expedition 15, and Mikhail Kornienko, a spacewalk rookie, will perform the six-hour spacewalk. The pair will exit the Pirs docking compartment and work outside the Zarya and Zvezda modules. The Pirs Docking Compartment hatch is sla ... read more |
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