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Mars500 European Crew Selected And Ready To GoParis, France (ESA) May 11, 2010 The simulated flight to Mars is almost ready to depart! Selection of the full crew is still under way, but the Europeans have now been chosen: Romain Charles and Diego Urbina. Two Europeans, three Russians and one Chinese will close the hatch of the Mars500 isolation modules in early June and start their record-breaking mission. The full crew will be announced later in May, but the European members have already been selected in order to allow them to visit family and friends before they are ... read more |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) May 10, 2010Engineers have shifted NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft into a mode that transmits only spacecraft health and status data while they diagnose an unexpected change in the pattern of returning data. Preliminary engineering data received on May 1 show the spacecraft is basically healthy, and that the source of the issue is the flight data system, which is responsible for formatting the data to send back ... more  
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) May 10, 2010Launch of space shuttle Atlantis on its STS-132 mission to the International Space Station officially is set for May 14 at 2:20 p.m. EDT. At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians working at Launch Pad 39A will replenish the liquid hydrogen storage tank and perform recharge operations for the gaseous oxygen. Commander Ken Ham will lead the six-member astronaut crew during the ... more  
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 10, 2010Opportunity drove twice in this latest period and took time in between to recharge her batteries. The drive on Sol 2228 (Mary 1, 2010) covered about 29 meters (95 feet). The next drive was on Sol 2231(May 4, 2010), achieved almost 33 meters (108 feet), the most that can be achieved with the available energy so close to the winter solstice. A complicating factor for Opportunity during ... more |
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Robot helpers may need safety systemAnchorage, Alaska (UPI) May 7, 2010 Robots acting as household helpers likely will need built-in safety systems to prevent them from harming humans, German researchers said. In experiments, a robotic arm using bladed tools in some cases managed to inflict wounds that could prove lethal, researchers from the German Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics said at a conference in Alaska. The researchers equipped a robotic arm with a steak knife, a kitchen knife, scissors and a screwdriver and then programmed the arm to stab an ... read more |
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