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Star Wars Meets UPS As Robonaut Packed For SpaceHouston TX (SPX) Aug 12, 2010 Getting into space isn't necessarily easy for astronauts, and it's not much easier for a robotic astronaut, either. Cocooned inside an aluminum frame and foam blocks cut out to its shape, Robonaut 2, or R2, is heading to the International Space Station inside the Permanent Multipurpose Module in space shuttle Discovery's payload bay as part of the STS-133 mission. Once in place inside the station, R2, with its humanlike hands and arms and stereo vision, is expected to perform some of the repetitiv ... read more |
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Altadena CA (SPX) Aug 03, 2010Global Aerospace Corporation (GAC) announced that Dr. Kristin L. Gates will present a paper on de-orbiting space junk at the August 2 Artificial and Natural Space Debris session of the AIAA Astrodynamics Specialists Conference in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Gates will describe GAC's Gossamer Orbit Lowering Device (GOLD) for safe and efficient removal from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) of dangero ... more  
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 03, 2010NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have embarked on a joint program to explore Mars in the coming decades and selected the five science instruments for the first mission. The principal investigator for one of the instruments, and the management for NASA's roles in the mission, are based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, schedul ... more  
Houston TX (SPX) Aug 03, 2010Teams of flight controllers are continuing engineering analysis and refining spacewalk procedures to replace a failed International Space Station ammonia pump module later this week. Expedition 24 astronauts Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson currently are scheduled to start the repairs on the station's starboard truss Thursday. The pump failed Saturday night after a spike in electrica ... more |
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Greening The Moon And MarsMoffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 30, 2010 Future manned missions to the Moon or Mars could use plants as bio-harvesters to extract valuable elements from the alien soils, researchers say. Now they hope to launch new experiments to follow up on tests done with plants and lunar regolith during NASA's Apollo program that landed men on the Moon. Lunar regolith is a loose mixture of dust, soil, broken rock and other related materials that lie on top of solid bedrock. The Apollo-era research showed that returned lunar samples of the regol ... read more |
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