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NASA extends space contract with Russia on ISSWashington (AFP) April 6, 2010 NASA announced Tuesday that it signed a contract with the Russian space agency to shuttle US astronauts to the orbiting International Space Station. The 335 million dollar contract extension is for the "transportation, rescue and related services" of US crew bound for the ISS in 2013, NASA said in a statement. The contract "covers comprehensive Soyuz support, including all necessary training and preparation for launch, crew rescue, and landing of a long-duration mission for six individual statio ... read more |
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Osaka (AFP) April 3, 2010Japanese researchers said Saturday they have developed a humanoid robot that can laugh and smile as it mimics a person's facial expressions. The robot, Geminoid TMF, can move its rubber facial skin to imitate a smile, a laugh showing teeth, and a grim look with furrowed brows, by receiving electric signals from the person it is modelled on. The researchers demonstrated with a robot made ... more  
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 06, 2010In a special double flyby early next week, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will visit Saturn's moons Titan and Dione within a period of about a day and a half, with no maneuvers in between. A fortuitous cosmic alignment allows Cassini to attempt this doubleheader, and the interest in swinging by Dione influenced the design of its extended mission. The Titan flyby, planned for Monday, April 5, wi ... more  
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Apr 06, 2010Technology for a water filtration system initially developed at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida is going to get a major test during the STS-131 mission as it is called on to create water clean enough to be used intravenously, commonly referred to as an IV. If it works, the system could prove critical to future astronauts if they have a medical emergency while traveling far from Earth. It ... more |
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Astronauts dock at International Space StationMoscow (AFP) April 4, 2010 A Russian rocket carrying three astronauts from Russia and the United States docked at the International Space Station (ISS) Sunday, the Russian flight control centre said. The Soyuz rocket, which blasted off early Friday, docked at 0925 (0525 GMT), an official from the centre said in a report by the Interfax news agency. The rocket left from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in the Kazakh steppe carrying Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Mikhail Korniyenko and US astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dy ... read more |
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