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Welcome home, Paolo!Paris, France (ESA) May 25, 2011 ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli landed back on Earth this morning to conclude his 159-day mission to the International Space Station. Paolo had been serving as the flight engineer for Expeditions 26 and 27 since December. Paolo's MagISStra mission, the third long mission by a European astronaut on the Station, came to end at 04:27 CEST (02:27 GMT) on the steppes of Kazakhstan as the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft fired its retrorockets for a soft landing. Paolo and crewmates Dmitri Kondratyev and Cathe ... read more |
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  Shuttle Tile Inspection Clears Endeavour For Return To Earth Mission managers cleared Endeavour's thermal protection system for re-entry after analysis of data and images from an early-morning focused robotic inspection of the tiles. A conversation with ... more | .. |
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 ISS astronauts inspect tile damage, chat with pope Astronauts completed an inspection of the heat shield tiles on the underbelly of the space shuttle Endeavour Saturday after a first-ever papal video call to space from Pope Pope Benedict XVI. ... more | .. |
 Endeavour astronauts wrap up second space walk Two astronauts completed a second of four scheduled space walks of the Endeavour shuttle's final mission to the International Space Station on Sunday, the US space agency said. ... more | .. |
  'Computer synapse' analyzed at the nanoscale Researchers at Hewlett Packard and the University of California, Santa Barbara, have analysed in unprecedented detail the physical and chemical properties of an electronic device that computer engin ... more |
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 Damaged shuttle tile to get closer look: NASA NASA plans to take a closer look Saturday at a damaged heat shield tile on the underbelly of the space shuttle Endeavour, but mission managers downplayed the inspection as no cause for concern. ... more | .. |
 NASA aims for July 8 launch of last-ever shuttle flight NASA said Friday it is aiming to launch the space shuttle Atlantis on July 8 for the last-ever flight of the 30-year-old American shuttle program. ... more | .. |
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