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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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 Leaks delay final launch of space shuttle Discovery The launch of the space shuttle Discovery on its final scheduled mission has been delayed by at least 24 hours until Tuesday because of a leak in a pressurization system, NASA said. ... more | .. |
  Surviving Lunar Dangers Space takes its toll on humans and equipment. Go into deep space, and the environment becomes even more hostile. Land on the Moon, and you're facing the most dangerous place humans have explored bey ... more | .. |
  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 |
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Washington (AFP) Oct 25, 2010The 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. The launch date was announced after a meeting of NASA officials at the Kennedy Space Center to determine whether the orbiter and crew were ready for the 11-day mission, the space agency said. "We're in great shape out at the pad," Lau ... more  
Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Oct 26, 2010Researchers 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 sea ice area around Antarctica will be reduced by more than 33 per cent by 2100, accelerating the collapse of ice shelves. Up to hundreds of metres thick, ice shelves are floating platforms of ice that ... more 
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 |
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LRO Detects Surprising Gases In LCROSS Lunar Impact PlumeBoulder CO (SPX) Oct 22, 2010 NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and its sophisticated suite of instruments have determined that hydrogen, mercury and other volatile substances are present in permanently shaded soils on the Moon, according to a paper published in Science. The Lunar Crater Remote Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS), which launched with LRO, was intentionally crashed onto the Moon's surface Oct. 9, 2009, while LRO instruments watched. About 90 seconds after LCROSS hit the Moon, LRO flew past the de ... read more |
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