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Space Shuttle Endeavour - A Lasting LegacyKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jun 16, 2011 Space program employees, media and several hundred thousand spectators held their breath in rapt attention as the minutes ticked down to launch - then space shuttle Endeavour's main engines ignited for the final time at 8:56 a.m. EDT Monday, May 16, 2011, to lift it and its crew of six off of Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Endeavour sailed through the clouds headed for the International Space Station (ISS) on its historic final flight for the Space Shuttle Program, the S ... read more |
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  International Conference On Low-Cost Planetary Missions Devising ways to explore space in tight fiscal times tops the agenda of the 9th International Conference on Low-Cost Planetary Missions, set for June 21-23, 2011, at the Johns Hopkins University App ... more | .. |
  U.S. escalates war on al-Qaida in Yemen The United States is ramping up its war against al-Qaida in Yemen, Osama bin Laden's ancestral home. ... more | .. |
  Camera Duo on Mars Rover Mast Will Shoot Color Views Two digital color cameras riding high on the mast of NASA's next Mars rover will complement each other in showing the surface of Mars in exquisite detail. They are the left and right eyes of the Mas ... more | .. |
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  MESSENGER's Solar Arrays Probe to Operate in Extreme Temperatures Orbiting Mercury Key technologies and hardware developed by Northrop Grumman gave the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury a power system that works to its maximum even in the searing heat that surrounds the planet clo ... more | .. |
  Etrion Engages ABB for 10 MW Solar Project Etrion has announced an agreement with ABB, a power and automation technology group, to complete Etrion's 10 MW Helios ITA 3 solar project under construction in the Puglia region of Italy. Etrion wi ... more | .. |
  State of Japan's nuclear disaster Three months after Japan's massive quake and tsunami sparked the world's worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl, emergency crews are still months away from bringing damaged reactors under control. ... more | .. |
 Japan's next gizmo: brainwave-controlled cat ears A team of Japanese inventors have come with a new device that blends the country's fascination with cuteness and its penchant for experimental high-tech - brainwave-controlled cat ears. ... more |
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Trump vows to relaunch Egypt-Ethiopia talks on dam row
China's birth rate falls to lowest on record
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 NASA Spending Shift to Benefit Centers Focused on Science and Technology Euroconsult along with the consulting firm Omnis have announced the findings of a study foreseeing a significant shift in NASA spending toward Earth science and R and D programs and away from legacy ... more | .. |
 A Salute to the Spirit of Mars The Voyagers are, perhaps, the best known example. Launched in the 1970s to explore the outer planets, the iconic spacecraft have zoomed far beyond their original targets to the edge of interstellar ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Studies Rock Outcrop Opportunity has exceeded 30 kilometers (nearly 19 miles) of odometry! The rover spent the last few sols investigating some exposed rock outcrop en route to Endeavour crater, now just a few kilometer ... more | .. |
  Industry Helps Engineering Students Reanimate Robotic Mine Vehicles In just 10 weeks, a group of University of Arizona engineering students took five crates of surplus hardware and two heavy-duty test vehicles, which didn't run, and mixed them with youthful enthusia ... more |
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 Five Steps Toward Future Exploration The NASA Astrobiology Science and Technology for Exploring Planets (ASTEP) program has announced a set of new projects to develop and test technologies that will enable the astrobiological explorati ... more | .. |
  Russian arms depot blasts force evacuation of 28,000 Russian firefighters on Friday battled a blaze raging through an arms depot where tonnes of artillery shells and rockets were stored, as some 28,000 people living nearby were evacuated from their homes. ... more | .. |
 Shuttle STS-134 back from enhancing Space Station The wheels of Space Shuttle Endeavour touched down at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida this morning at 06:35 GMT (08:35 CEST) after a 16-day mission that added a pioneering experiment to the I ... more | .. |
  5 new hot spots where medicine and technology will converge Medicine and technology are converging in patient care at a faster pace than most people realize. Space age advancements from point-of-care health technologies like telemedicine to medical robots pe ... more |
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Greenland truce or Trump win? Davos "framework" pauses tariffs but not the takeover boasts
Greenlanders doubtful over Trump resolution
EU says ready to sign defence and security pact with India | .. |
 The hand as a joystick Before a new vehicle rolls off the assembly lines, it first takes shape as a virtual model. In a cave - a room for the virtual representation of objects - the developers look at it from all sides, t ... more | .. |
  On-Orbit Orion MPCV Navigation System Tested During STS-134 Shuttle Mission In an unprecedented on-orbit maneuver, Commander Mark Kelly completed the first ever Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV)-like approach to the International Space Station at 3:24 a.m. CDT as part ... more | .. |
NASA and Hawaii Partner for Space Exploration NASA and Hawaii have agreed to collaborate on a wide range of activities to promote America's human and robotic exploration of space. The partnership also will contribute to the development of educa ... more | .. |
  Building the future at ESA - ESA Bulletin 146 In a first for the Bulletin, we take a wide look at technology development across the whole agency, from Science and Robotic Exploration, to Earth Observation and Telecommunications and Integrated A ... more |
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  Stars help to track space junk A team of researchers from the Royal Institute and Observatory of the Navy (ROA) in Cadiz (Spain) has developed a method to track the movement of geostationary objects using the position of the star ... more | .. |
  CU-Boulder to participate in NASA mission to land on an asteroid A University of Colorado Boulder team will be part of a mission selected yesterday by NASA to launch a spacecraft to an asteroid and pluck samples from its surface to better understand the formation ... more | .. |
  Exam-obsessed Hong Kong makes celebrity tutors rich Cut-throat competition for exam success in Hong Kong's high-pressure education system has spawned a new breed of teacher - celebrity tutors with near cult-like status and millionaire lifestyles. ... more | .. |
 Guide vests robotic navigation aids for the visually impaired For the visually impaired, navigating city streets or neighborhoods has constant challenges. And most such people still must rely on a very rudimentary technology - a simple cane - to help them make ... more |
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Quantum transport method reads open quantum states
Scientists uncover new quantum state that could power future technologies
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 NASA Selects OSIRIS-REx as Next New Frontiers Mission NASA has selected the University of Arizona to lead a sample-return mission to an asteroid. The OSIRIS-REx team is led by Dr. Michael Drake, Director of the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planeta ... more | .. |
 Final Endeavour spacewalk marks 1,000 hours of station EVAs The crew of the US space shuttle Endeavour wrapped up their fourth and final spacewalk Friday, a walkabout that surpassed the 1,000th hour of such trips to build the International Space Station. ... more | .. |
  Commentary: Shining citadel redux In January 1981, when Ronald Reagan was sworn in as the 40th U.S. president, he declared the federal budget to be out of control. ... more | .. |
 NASA aims to grab asteroid time capsule NASA on Wednesday said it plans to launch the first unmanned US spacecraft to a deep space asteroid in 2016 to collect samples and return them to Earth for further study. ... more |
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NASA to Launch New Science Mission to Asteroid in 2016 NASA will launch a spacecraft to an asteroid in 2016 and use a robotic arm to pluck samples that could better explain our solar system's formation and how life began. The mission, called Origins-Spe ... more | .. |
 NASA's Spirit Rover Completes Mission on Mars NASA has ended operational planning activities for the Mars rover Spirit and transitioned the Mars Exploration Rover Project to a single-rover operation focused on Spirit's still-active twin, Opport ... more | .. |
  Scientists trick the brain into Barbie-doll size Imagine shrinking to the size of a doll in your sleep. When you wake up, will you perceive yourself as tiny or the world as being populated by giants? Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden ... more | .. |
 Spacewalkers Prepare for Third Excursion STS-134 Mission Specialists Drew Feustel and Mike Fincke will conduct the third spacewalk of the mission Wednesday. They will be trying a new pre-breathe protocol designed to replace the overnight c ... more |
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