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Cosmonaut Testing at Star City Deceptively SimpleMoscow (RIA Novosti) Feb 23, 2012 So you want to be a cosmonaut? Now is your chance, but prepare to be tested like one. The countdown is on for Russia's first ever open cosmonaut recruitment drive, and while organizers wait for the tidal wave of applications to finally rush in, they decided to lay bare the admission tests to the space-loving masses. Most tests demonstrated to the media during a press tour of the cosmonaut training facility in Star City this week look deceptively simple, ranging from spot-a-dot attention exer ... read more |
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  Sea Launch on Track to Loft Intelsat 19 Sea Launch AG, through Energia Logistics Ltd., has conducted a Hardware Acceptance Review of the Zenit-2S launch vehicle to be utilized in support of the Intelsat 19 mission. A team of special ... more | .. |
  Dusty Mars Rover's Self-Portrait This self-portait from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows dust accumulation on the rover's solar panels as the mission approached its fifth Martian winter. The dust reduces the rover's ... more | .. |
  Searching for life in the depths of Enceladus Is there life under the icy crust of Enceladus? The Cassini spacecraft has confirmed the existence of active ice-spewing fissures on the surface of Enceladus. Giant jets of water ice are shot into s ... more | .. |
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  SD-built camera spots tiny shifts on moon The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has found evidence that areas of the moon's surface stretched some within the past 50 million years, creating tiny valleys. The discovery was ... more | .. |
  Hubble Reveals a New Class of Extrasolar Planet Observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have come up with a new class of planet, a waterworld enshrouded by a thick, steamy atmosphere. It's smaller than Uranus but larger than Earth. ... more | .. |
 US scientists discover new 'waterworld' planet An astronaut attempting to visit recently discovered planet GJ1214b would land in hot water - literally, US scientists say. ... more | .. |
 Stark warning emerges from science summit A stark theme emerged from an annual scientific get-together in Vancouver: the world must be helped to believe in science again or it could be too late to save our planet. ... more |
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 Rock Studies Continue for Opportunity Opportunity is positioned on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater with an approximate 15-degree northerly tilt for favorable solar energy production. While positioned for ... more | .. |
 Back to the Moon A Modern Redux The moon is again in the focus of world space exploration. Recently water was discovered on the moon - something scientists did not expect to find. This could lead to the establishment of lunar base ... more | .. |
 Mars rocks indicate relatively recent quakes, volcanism, on Red Planet Images of a martian landscape offer evidence that the Red Planet's surface not only can shake like the surface of Earth, but has done so relatively recently. If marsquakes do indeed take place, said ... more | .. |
 X-rays illuminate the interior of the Moon Contrary to Earth, our Moon has no active volcanoes, and the traces of its past volcanic activity date from billions of years ago. This is surprising, because recent Moonquake data suggest that ther ... more |
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 ASU professor uses Star Trek themes to communicate science Before firing up the dilithium crystals in your warp drive, you should know what you are getting into, said Lawrence Krauss, ASU Foundation Professor at Arizona State University. When applied to the ... more | .. |
  In new mass-production technique, robotic insects spring to life A new technique inspired by elegant pop-up books and origami will soon allow clones of robotic insects to be mass-produced by the sheet. Devised by engineers at Harvard, the ingenious layering and f ... more | .. |
  Launch of China's manned spacecraft Shenzhou-9 scheduled China will launch its manned Shenzhou-9 spacecraft between June and August this year, as well as conduct a space rendezvous and docking mission with the orbiting Tiangong-1 space lab module, a spoke ... more | .. |
 NASA Spacecraft Reveals Recent Geological Activity on the Moon New images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft show the moon's crust is being stretched, forming minute valleys in a few small areas on the lunar surface. Scientists propose th ... more |
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AI tool accelerates SAR image analysis with automated object detection
Fossil energy 'significant' driver of climate-fuelled heatwaves: study
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 Scattered Light Could Reveal Alien Atmospheres The light scattered off distant worlds could help reveal details about their atmospheres that no other method could uncover, scientists find. Nearly all the information astronomers have of the atmos ... more | .. |
 A robot sketches portraits An industrial robot as artist? From March 6-10, 2012, researchers will be presenting what may at first seem to be a contradiction at CeBIT in Hanover, Germany. There, interested visitors can view th ... more | .. |
 Glenn: I don't think of myself as a hero John Glenn, feted in his home state of Ohio Monday on the 50th anniversary of being the first American to orbit Earth, says he doesn't consider himself a hero. ... more | .. |
 UA Huntsville scientific team helping Japanese space program launch safely A team of scientists from The University of Alabama in Huntsville's Earth System Science Center is working with the Japanese space agency to develop new rules to protect spacecraft from lightning. ... more |
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 Rocket to be launched from Poker Flat Research Range Scientists are now at Poker Flat Research Range north of Fairbanks waiting for acceptable conditions for the launch of a National Aeronautics and Space Administration sounding rocket. The rock ... more | .. |
 2.5 million pound investment will grow UK space technology industry Twenty-two British companies are to share 2.5 million pound of government support to enable them to develop commercial products and services using space technology or space-derived data. The g ... more | .. |
  Fifth ATV named after Georges Lemaitre ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicles (ATVs) are an essential contribution by Europe to running the International Space Station. Naming the fifth after Belgian scientist Georges Lemaitre continues the t ... more | .. |
  Future of Space Transportation The Air Force Space Command commander spoke to the critical aspects of space launch, new technologies in launch operations and the long range vision for the launch mission during his speech at the 1 ... more |
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Boeing accelerates spacecraft production with 3D-printed solar panel structures
New fabrication method expands material options for quantum devices
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 Shenzhou 9 To Carry 3 Astronauts To Tiangong-1 Space Station Chinese space officials said Friday that three astronauts will fly to Tiangong 1 aboard Shenzhou 9. This reverses previous published state media reports that the Shenzhou 9 mission would be unmanned. ... more | .. |
 New system allows robots to continuously map their environment Robots could one day navigate through constantly changing surroundings with virtually no input from humans, thanks to a system that allows them to build and continuously update a three-dimensional m ... more | .. |
 Robot reconnoiters uncharted terrain Mobile robots have many uses. They serve as cleaners, carry out inspections and search for survivors of disasters. But often, there is no map to guide them through unknown territory. Researchers hav ... more | .. |
 Human tests for first wirelessly controlled drug delivery chip About 15 years ago, MIT professors Robert Langer and Michael Cima had the idea to develop a programmable, wirelessly controlled microchip that would deliver drugs after implantation in a patient's b ... more |
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 'Duet of 1' possible with hand-controlled voice synthesizer New technology at the University of British Columbia makes it possible for a person to speak or sing just by using their hands to control a speech synthesizer. UBC researcher Sidney Fels says the ge ... more | .. |
 New 'soft' motor made from artificial muscles "Perhaps the earliest public demonstration of an electric motor," writes a team of researchers from the University of Auckland in New Zealand, "involved the automatic rotation of a turkey on a spit ... more | .. |
 NuSTAR Mated to its Rocket NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) is being mated, or attached, to its Pegasus XL rocket at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in central California. The mission's launch is now ... more | .. |
 50th anniversary of first US space flight is bittersweet The United States marks the 50th anniversary Monday of the first flight of an American into orbit. But the historic landmark is bittersweet: the first nation to land people on the Moon now depends on Russia for its manned space flights. ... more |
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