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Retire The Shuttle on OrbitWashington DC (SPX) May 20, 2010 If I didn't know better I'd swear that NASA took many leaves out of Ray Kroc's book when they built the monolithic government agency that they have become. For those of you unfamiliar, Kroc was the entrepreneurial genius who took a couple of hamburger restaurants in California and turned them into the largest restaurant chain on this planet, McDonald's. One of the most radical changes that McDonald's perfected and which NASA seems to have adopted with a vengeance is the throw away culture; use dis ... read more |
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New York NY (SPX) May 20, 2010Researchers from Columbia University, Arizona State University, the University of Michigan and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created and programmed robots the size of single molecule that can move independently across a nano-scale track. This development, outlined in the journal Nature, marks an important advancement in the nascent fields of molecular computing and ... more  
Paris, France (ESA) May 19, 2010A new section in the ESA web site highlights the Agency's growing activity related to the Space Situational Awareness programme. The full SSA system will protect Europe's citizens and satellite-based services by detecting space hazards. The Space Situational Awareness Preparatory Programme was authorised at the November 2008 ESA Ministerial Council and formally launched in 2009. More ... more  
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 19, 2010One flip of a bit in the memory of an onboard computer appears to have caused the change in the science data pattern returning from Voyager 2, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said Monday, May 17. A value in a single memory location was changed from a 0 to a 1. On May 12, engineers received a full memory readout from the flight data system computer, which formats the data to s ... more |
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Astronauts And Cosmonauts Work Together To Install Russian ModuleHouston TX (SPX) May 19, 2010 Today, the crew focused on the addition of the Russian Mini-Research Module-1 (MRM-1) to the International Space Station. The module, named Rassvet, Russian for "dawn," docked to the Earth-facing port on the Zarya module at 8:20 a.m. EDT. Shuttle Commander Ken Ham and Pilot Tony Antonelli maneuvered the shuttle robotic arm to unberth the module from Atlantis' payload bay and positioned it for handoff to the station robotic arm. Mission Specialists Garrett Reisman and Piers Sellers were at the stat ... read more |
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