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US shuttle Endeavour docks at space station: NASAWashington (AFP) May 18, 2011 The US space shuttle Endeavour, with six astronauts on board including an Italian, docked at the International Space Station on Wednesday, NASA said. The docking, the next to last for the US shuttle program, took place at 1014 GMT, according to a commentator on NASA TV, which broadcast live footage of the maneuver. The opening of the hatches was planned for 1230 GMT, it said. The shuttle blasted off Monday on a 16-day mission to deliver a potent physics experiment to probe the origins of the uni ... read more |
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 STS-134 Crew Completes First Full Day in Space Endeavour's astronauts performed an inspection of the orbiter's thermal protection system. They also checked out spacesuits and rendezvous tools in preparation for Wednesday's docking with the Inter ... more | .. |
  New SETI survey focuses on Kepler's top Earth-like planets Now that NASA's Kepler space telescope has identified 1,235 possible planets around stars in our galaxy, astronomers at the University of California, Berkeley, are aiming a radio telescope at the mo ... more | .. |
  Utah USTAR Professor's Invention Approved by NASA for Long-Term Use Aboard ISS After more than 12 months of testing aboard the International Space Station (ISS), an experimental water quality monitoring kit based on technology developed by USTAR professor Marc D. Porter and Un ... more | .. |
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 Hall Statement on Final Flight of Space Shuttle Endeavour The House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Chairman Ralph Hall (R-TX), made the following statement after the successful launch of the STS-134 mission, representing the final mission of the ... more | .. |
 "Canary" is Bound for ISS A highly sensitive and extremely compact instrument for plasma monitoring known as Canary, developed and built by researchers at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laur ... more | .. |
 Endeavour blasts off on next-to-last shuttle flight The space shuttle Endeavour blasted off Monday toward the International Space Station on the penultimate flight for the US shuttle program. ... more | .. |
 Poignant lawmaker-astronaut farewell at shuttle launch A wounded US lawmaker and her astronaut husband traded wedding rings before he boarded the space shuttle Endeavour on Monday to command its final flight, a spokeswoman said. ... more |
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MSBAI wins DoD contract to accelerate OrbitGuard for space situational awarenes
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  Tiny robots map buildings -- without help Tiny robots working by themselves and communicating only with each other can explore and map buildings, a team of U.S. researchers that built the machines says. ... more | .. |
 Haumea Shines with Crystalline Ice The fifth dwarf planet of the solar system, Haumea, and at least one of its two satellites, are covered in crystalline water-ice due to the tidal forces between them and the heat of radiogenic eleme ... more | .. |
 Endeavour flies to ISS for the last time On 16 May 2011 at 08:56 EDT (14:56 CEST), Space Shuttle Endeavour lifted off from Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) on the penultimate shuttle mission (STS-134) to the International S ... more | .. |
  Preparations for third Ariane 5 mission of 2011 move into their final phase India's GSAT-8 multi-mission satellite has been integrated on the Ariane 5 launcher for Arianespace's third flight of 2011, moving this mission campaign into its final preparations for a May 19 lift ... more |
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 Scheduling the Unknown What's the most effective way to explore an unknown world? That's one question that members of the Pavilion Lake Research Project (PLRP), with a bit of help from NASA mission planners, hope to addre ... more | .. |
 New Experiments Headed to ISS on STS-134 The Space Shuttle Endeavour launched to the International Space Station on May 16, carrying with it a mix of research that will be performed on the station during and after the shuttle mission. Near ... more | .. |
  NASA Announces Its First Payloads for Commercial Suborbital Spacecraft NASA has announced its first four payloads to fly on commercial suborbital spacecraft, kicking off a new era of low-cost technology R and D, science, and STEM education enabled by new commercial spa ... more | .. |
 Another Ariane 5 begins its assembly at the Spaceport The Ariane 5 for Arianespace's fourth heavy-lift mission of 2011 has begun its initial build-up at the Spaceport - joining another launch campaign being conducted in parallel, and underscoring the F ... more |
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Ash improves methane yield and fertilizer value in biogas systems
Bio-oil from agricultural and forest waste could help seal abandoned oil wells and store carbon
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 Study suggest water on distant planet Mounting evidence indicates a planet orbiting a star 20 light years away could be the first habitable planet other than Earth, French researchers say. ... more | .. |
  Could exoplanet be a haven for life? Scientists said on Monday a rocky world orbiting a nearby star was confirmed as the first planet outside our solar system to meet key requirements for sustaining life. ... more | .. |
 Heaven is a 'fairy story': Hawking British scientist Stephen Hawking has branded heaven a "fairy story" for people afraid of the dark, in his latest dismissal of the concepts underpinning the world's religions. ... more | .. |
  Opportunity Cracks The 18-Mile Mark Opportunity continues the trek towards Endeavour crater after a brief jog last week through a small field of young impact craters, named in honor after the spacecraft of the NASA Mercury Program. ... more |
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 Controlling robotic arms is child's play Catching a ball is no problem for most people. Getting a robotic arm to catch a ball using a catcher attachment is a bit trickier. To find out just how tricky it is - or to see if it's easier than t ... more | .. |
 Researchers demonstrate autonomous robots able to explore and map buildings There isn't a radio-control handset in sight as several small robots roll briskly up the hallways of an office building. Working by themselves and communicating only with one another, the vehicles d ... more | .. |
  J-2X Test Series Proves Part Integrity Engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center gave a key component of the J-2X engine a brisk workout to ensure it can withstand its extreme operating environment. The engine's fuel turbopump fir ... more | .. |
  DAICHI (ALOS) Operations Completed The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) had been trying to communicate with the Advanced Land Observing Satellite "DAICHI" (ALOS) for about three weeks after it developed a power generation an ... more |
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Manipulating light to advance quantum entanglement research
Top Japan start-up Sakana AI touts nature-inspired tech
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  A Wrinkly Old Reveal Clues To Its Past Written on the moon's weary face are the damages it has endured for the past 4-1/2 billion years. From impact craters to the dark plains of maria left behind by volcanic eruptions, the scars are all ... more | .. |
 Astronauts board Endeavour for next-to-last shuttle flight Astronauts boarded the space shuttle Endeavour Monday as it prepared to blast off toward International Space Station on the penultimate flight for the US shuttle program. ... more | .. |
 MoonBots Challenges Teams to Conduct Lunar Missions with LEGO Robots The X PRIZE Foundation and the LEGO Group has announced MoonBots 2.0: A Google Lunar X PRIZE LEGO MINDSTORMS Challenge. This second annual contest will challenge teams of youth to design, program, a ... more | .. |
 ISRO to Set Up Sub-Systems Integration Facility The Indian Space Research Organisation plans to set up an advanced R and D centre in the field of spacecraft technologies in Karnataka's Chitradurga and rocket sub-systems integration facility near ... more |
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 India Lines Up Three PSLV Launches This Year Indian Space Research Organisation is lining up three PSLV launches from Sriharikota spaceport by October this year, its Chairman K Radhakrishnan said Friday. He said PSLV-C17 would launch GSA ... more | .. |
 Mars Science Laboratory Aeroshell Delivered To Launch Site NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) aeroshell and cruise stage were delivered to Kennedy Space Center, Fla. yesterday. Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] built the aeroshell and NASA's Jet Propulsion Labo ... more | .. |
Endeavour poised for next-to-last US shuttle flight NASA Sunday readied the space shuttle Endeavour for its final mission with liftoff set for 8:56 am (1256 GMT) Monday on the next-to-last flight for the American shuttle program. ... more | .. |
  Blackbody energy set the stage for clocks with unprecedented accuracy A team of physicists from the United States and Russia has announced that it has developed a means for computing, with unprecedented accuracy, a tiny, temperature-dependent source of error in atomic ... more |
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