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Weather delays Discovery space shuttle launch: NASACape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Nov 4, 2010 Foul weather has delayed the scheduled launch of space shuttle Discovery until Friday, NASA said. "There is a no go for 24 hours because of the weather," a spokesman at Kennedy Space Center said, as heavy rain fell on the space center at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Launch is now set for 3:03 pm (1903 GMT) Friday, with weather forecasts showing a 60-percent chance of favorable conditions, the US space agency said. ... read more |
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  Studying Child-Mother Interactions To Design Robots With Social Skills To help unravel the mysteries of human cognitive development and reach new the frontiers in robotics, University of Miami (UM) developmental psychologists and computer scientists from the University ... more | .. |
 More delays for Discovery shuttle launch The launch of the shuttle Discovery was delayed until Thursday, the latest in a series of glitches that have set back its final mission to the International Space Station. ... more | .. |
 Electrical malfunction delays Discovery launch to Thursday An electrical malfunction has forced the US space agency to delay until Thursday the shuttle Discovery's final mission to the International Space Station, NASA said. ... more | .. |
 Obama hails 'important milestone' in space exploration US President Barack Obama hailed the 10th anniversary of crews aboard the International Space Station on Tuesday as an "important milestone" in the history of human space exploration. ... more |
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Shuttle Discovery counts down to final space voyage 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. ... more | .. |
  China Goes To Mars As China's second Moon probe continues its mission, more information is being disclosed about China's ambitions for worlds beyond. China has made no secret of its plans to explore Mars, but we are g ... more | .. |
  Moon Express Enters $30 Million Google Lunar X PRIZE Competition Moon Express has announced its official entry into the Google Lunar X PRIZE - a $30 million competition that challenges space professionals and engineers from across the globe to build and launch to ... more | .. |
  Opportunity Keeps On Driving To Endeavour Crater Over the past week, Opportunity completed a short bump before the weekend and two long drives after the weekend. The short bump was a 3-meter (10-foot) move on Sol 2397 (Oct. 21, 2010), to position ... more |
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 Advanced Ruggedized Robotic Exoskeleton Undergoes Validation Testing Lockheed Martin recently began laboratory testing of an improved next-generation design of its HULC advanced robotic exoskeleton. The testing brings HULC a step closer to readiness to support troops ... more | .. |
Robots are lords of the dance at South Korean festival "That's cool!" shouted a packed crowd as five dancing robots flashing red and blue lights started rocking and grooving to popular Korean songs. ... more | .. |
 Shuttle Discovery launch delayed to Wednesday: NASA The final scheduled mission of space shuttle Discovery was delayed another 24 hours to Wednesday as technicians struggled to repair leaks in a pressurization system, NASA said on Saturday. ... more | .. |
 NASA Trapped Mars Rover Finds Evidence of Subsurface Water The ground where NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit became stuck last year holds evidence that water, perhaps as snow melt, trickled into the subsurface fairly recently and on a continuing basis. ... 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 |
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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 | .. |
 NASA Readies Shuttle Discovery for Final Mission The 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. ... more |
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 A One-Way Trip To Mars Would Be Affordable For 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 ... more | .. |
 Testing The Exomars Rover In Mars-Like Conditions A 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 ... more | .. |
 LRO Detects Surprising Gases In LCROSS Lunar Impact Plume 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 t ... more | .. |
 Curiosity Builds A New Mars Rover A newly installed webcam is giving the public an opportunity to watch technicians assemble and test the next NASA Mars rover, one of the most technologically challenging interplanetary missions ever ... more |
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