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Shuttle Discovery counts down to final space voyageWashington (AFP) Oct 31, 2010 Discovery, the oldest space shuttle in NASA's fleet, is readying for its final mission Wednesday following repairs to leaks in a pressurization system that has twice delayed the launch. "Work is on schedule. We completed flight pressurization and all went well. That is behind us now," Steve Payne, NASA test director, told reporters as the countdown to launch kicked off at 2:00 pm (1800 GMT) Sunday. The mission, initially scheduled for Monday, was postponed so Kennedy Space Center technicians cou ... read more |
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  Berkley Microsats Take Lunar Excursion For Extended Time Two micro-satellites originally launched into Earth's orbit in 2007 by NASA have been redirected by University of California, Berkeley, scientists toward new orbits around the moon, extending study ... more | .. |
  Robot uses 'bean bag' hand on objects A robot equipped with a "bean bag" hand is capable of grasping and picking up all kinds of objects with ease, a U.S. researcher says. ... more | .. |
  NASA Awards Contract To Team FREDNET Google Lunar X PRIZE Contender Team FREDNET has been awarded a NASA Innovative Lunar Demonstrations Data (ILDD) contract at the maximum government purchase value of $10.01 million. As a recipient of this ILDD contract, Team FREDN ... more | .. |
 Discovery launch set for November 1: NASA The shuttle Discovery will be launched with a six-member crew November 1 on its last scheduled flight to the International Space Station, NASA said Monday. ... more | .. |
  UBC Underwater Robot To Explore Ice-Covered Ocean And Antarctic Ice Shelf Researchers at the University of British Columbia are deploying an underwater robot to survey ice-covered ocean in Antarctica from October 17 through November 12. Scientists predict that the s ... more |
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KSC FL (SPX) Oct 25, 2010The countdown is on: NASA has only two shuttle launches left. The U.S. space agency is retiring its shuttle fleet next year and encouraging the development of commercial human spaceflight vehicles. Space shuttle Discovery is set to launch November 1 Last week, engineers found that Discovery had developed a fuel leak. John Shannon, the space shuttle program manager at NASA's Joh ... more  
Pullman WA (SPX) Oct 25, 2010For the chance to watch the sun rise over Olympus Mons, or maybe take a stroll across the vast plains of the Vastitas Borealis, would you sign on for a one-way flight to Mars? It's a question that gives pause to even Dirk Schulze-Makuch, a Washington State University associate professor, who, with colleague Paul Davies, a physicist and cosmologist from Arizona State University, argues for ... more 
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Oct 22, 2010A couple of clicks of the mouse are enough to send the ExoMars rover with its six flexible metal wheels moving across the sand tank towards the first obstacle. Bernhard Rebele, Maximilian Apfelbeck and Sebastian Kuss from the German Aerospace Center Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics have built a challenging obstacle course, which really puts the rover to the test. Its middle wheels sc ... more |
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The International Future In SpaceSydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 22, 2010 The repercussions of NASA Administrator Charles Bolden's controversial tour of China continue to circulate, both in the media and in less public circles. Regardless of how we judge this, the fact that so much attention has been focused on the trip is instructive in its own right. It's a symptom of the complexity of international relations, and the current uncertainties over the future of America's space program. Let's start by acknowledging, yet again, that US-China relations are somewhat frosty. ... read more |
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