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NASA Outlines Big Plans For Humanoid RobotHuntsville AL (SPX) May 03, 2010 Astronauts on board the International Space Station will soon have a new roommate--and it's not human. It's a humanoid. In Sept. 2010, space shuttle Discovery will deliver Robonaut 2--"R2" for short--to the ISS, where it will become the first humanoid robot to travel and work in space. Developed jointly by NASA and General Motors, R2 looks a bit like C-3PO of Star Wars fame but lacks the chatty robot's gift of gab. That's okay, because the humans on board need a worker that can wield more useful t ... read more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Apr 29, 2010NASA is planning to make some changes to the target launch dates for the last two scheduled space shuttle flights. Scientists with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, or AMS, program recently decided to change out the current magnet in the particle physics experiment module that will be attached to the International Space Station to a longer lasting one. This will take advantage of NASA's pla ... more  
Dulles VA (SPX) Apr 29, 2010Orbital Sciences has announced that it successfully launched the first Minotaur IV rocket in support of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Hypersonic Technology Vehicle-2 (HTV-2) program. The Minotaur IV rocket is the newest in the Minotaur family of launchers that Orbital produces for the U.S. Air Force under the Orbital/Suborbital Program-2 contract. The missio ... more  
Tallahassee FL (SPX) Apr 29, 2010The first-ever discovery of ice and organic molecules on an asteroid may hold clues to the origins of Earth's oceans and life 4 billion years ago. University of Central Florida researchers detected a thin layer of water ice and organic molecules on the surface of 24 Themis, the largest in a family of asteroids orbiting between Mars and Jupiter. Their unexpected findings will be publi ... more |
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Russia To Send Freighter With Books And Candy To ISSMoscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Apr 28, 2010 Russia will launch a cargo module to the International Space Station (ISS) on April 28, mission control said on Tuesday. It said the Progress M-05M freighter will lift off on a Soyuz-U rocket at 21:15 Moscow time from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan and is due to dock with the ISS at 23:35 Moscow time. Mission control said it will deliver over 2.5 tons of supplies, including equipment, parcels from home, chocolate, candy, new video films and books. Progress-series freighters ha ... read more |
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