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Endeavour poised for last liftoffCape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) April 29, 2011 The US space shuttle Endeavour is poised to launch Friday carrying a multibillion dollar tool for searching the universe on the penultimate flight for NASA's 30-year program. As many as 750,000 onlookers, including President Barack Obama, are expected to converge on the area around Cape Canaveral to catch a glimpse of the shuttle's blastoff toward the International Space Station at 1947 GMT. After Endeavour returns from its 14-day mission and Atlantis launches for a final time in June, the iconi ... read more |
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  First Contact: Investigating Astrobiology The origins of my new book - "First Contact: Scientific Breakthroughs in the Hunt for Life Beyond Earth" - lie more in journalism than in science. As a relatively recent convert to space and science ... more | .. |
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  NASA's Swift and Hubble Probe Asteroid Collision Debris Late last year, astronomers noticed an asteroid named Scheila had unexpectedly brightened, and it was sporting short-lived plumes. Data from NASA's Swift satellite and Hubble Space Telescope showed ... more | .. |
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  ESA prepares Soyuz for dry roll-out The first Russian Soyuz ST rocket built for launch from the European Space Agency's site at Kourou in French Guyana will be rolled out to the launch pad for dry systems tests on April 29, the Russia ... more | .. |
  UMaine Students Test Wireless Sensors on Rocket Five University of Maine students participated in a recent launch process as a rocket loaded with wireless sensors the students developed in a UMaine lab blasted off in California's Mojave Desert. ... more | .. |
 Next-generation US space racers outline plans A handful of companies competing to make the spaceship to replace the iconic US shuttle said Thursday they are racing to shrink what will be a long gap in flying Americans into space aboard US craft. ... more | .. |
 Clouds dampen forecast for Endeavour launch Cloudy weather and strong winds boosted the likelihood of a delay to the planned launch of the space shuttle Endeavour from 20 to 30 percent, NASA said Thursday. ... more |
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  $53 million pledged to Kickstarter in two years Kickstarter, a website which collects donations for creative projects, said Thursday that it has received pledges of more than $53 million since its launch two years ago. ... more | .. |
  Chip satellites depart on Endeavour's final launch A group of Cornell-developed, fingernail-sized satellites may travel to Saturn within the next decade, and as they flutter down through its atmosphere, they will collect data about chemistry, radiat ... more | .. |
  Profiling Polar Craters with the Mercury Laser Altimeter MESSENGER's Mercury Laser Altimeter (MLA) uses a laser to measure the distance from the spacecraft to Mercury's surface. The instrument sends a laser pulse to Mercury and measures the time it takes ... more | .. |
 NNSA Announces New Space Debris Modeling All this week, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is highlighting its advanced supercomputing capabilities with a week of features demonstrating the science and technology work done ... more |
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 NASA Receives European Commitment To Continue ISS The Multilateral Coordination Board (MCB) for the International Space Station partner agencies met Wednesday, April 27, to discuss increased efforts to use the station as a test-bed for exploration. ... more | .. |
 Russia launches cargo vessel for space station An unmanned Russian cargo vessel set off Wednesday on a mission to supply the crew on board the International Space Station with a new shipment of equipment and supplies. ... more | .. |
 Five Things About NASA's Voyager Mission Here are five facts about NASA's twin Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, the longest continuously-operating spacecraft in deep space. The Voyagers were built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena ... more | .. |
 Cargo Craft Launches as Crew Prepares for Space Shuttle The ISS Progress 42 resupply craft launched Wednesday morning to replenish the International Space Station. Launch was at 9:05 a.m. EDT (7:05 p.m. Kazakhstan time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The ... more |
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Ash improves methane yield and fertilizer value in biogas systems
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  Irobot Awarded 230 Million From US Navy iRobot has announced that it received a $230 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) on April 12, 2011. Under the contract's terms, ... more | .. |
 Shuttle life ready to launch In addition to astronauts, Endeavour will carry a legion of microscopic passengers in the Planetary Society's Shuttle LIFE experiment when the space shuttle launches on its last flight on April 29. ... more | .. |
 US budget cuts mean no more ET monitoring A monitoring system for potential extraterrestrial communication has been shelved due to budget cuts, one of its partners said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
US shuttle flight is a celebrity love story, too It may be hard to top the royal wedding, but the second-to-last US space shuttle flight set to coincide with the Friday nuptials of William and Kate is a star-studded love story in its own right. ... more |
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 Resourcesat-2, Youthsat, X-Sat functioning satisfactorily The country's latest remote sensing satellite Resourcesat-2 and two micro satellites launched by home grown PSLV-C16 rocket on April 20 from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh ''are functioning satisfact ... more | .. |
 STS-134 Astronauts Arrive at Kennedy for Launch The six astronauts for space shuttle Endeavour's STS-134 mission to the International Space Station now are at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for their prelaunch preparations. The crew arriv ... more | .. |
  Countdown begins for Chineses space station program Authorities in charge of the manned space program unveiled plans on Monday to build a 60-ton space station, made up of three capsules, and develop a cargo spaceship to transport supplies. The China ... more | .. |
  Researchers build time machine to visually explore space and time Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute have leveraged the latest browser technology to create GigaPan Time Machine, a system that enables viewers to explore gigapixel-scale, ... more |
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 See You On The ISS Said The Spider To The Fly Thousands of K-12 students will be paying close attention when NASA's space shuttle Endeavour rumbles off the launch pad April 29 from Florida on its final flight, which will be toting a payload con ... more | .. |
Countdown begins for Friday's US shuttle flight Countdown began Tuesday for the US space agency's launch of the shuttle Endeavour, with preparations proceeding smoothly and the weather forecast looking pleasant for the Friday liftoff, NASA said. ... more | .. |
 The Big Picture Wins Big Remember life before cell phones? Or GPS? Or tablet computers? Kind of hard, isn't it? Air traffic management researchers feel the same way about life before the Future ATM (Air Traffic Management) ... more | .. |
  Scientists Focus on Light Ions for Fast Ignition of Fusion Fuels Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory Plasma Physics Division demonstrate significant progress in the efficiency and cost effectiveness of light ions in the fast ignition of fusion targets. Li ... more |
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Giffords cleared to view shuttle launch: husband Astronaut Mark Kelly says his wife, US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, has been cleared to attend his space shuttle launch after recovering steadily from a brain injury sustained in a shooting. ... more | .. |
  Electron Beams Link Saturn with Its Moon Enceladus Data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have revealed that Enceladus, one of Saturn's diminutive moons, is linked to Saturn by powerful electrical currents - beams of electrons that flow back and forth ... more | .. |
 End of an Era This week, Space Shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to lift off on STS-134, the second to the last shuttle flight as a government-owned launch vehicle. Even as you read this article, Kennedy Space Cente ... more | .. |
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