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NASA to Launch Robonaut 2 Robot to International Space Station

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA will launch the first human-like robot to space later this year to become a permanent resident of the International Space Station. Robonaut 2, or R2, was developed jointly ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 14, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Stuck bolt, dead battery bedevil Hubble repairs

(AP) -- Spacewalkers' specially designed tools couldn't dislodge a balky bolt interfering with repairs Sunday at the Hubble Space Telescope, so they took an approach more familiar to people puttering around ...

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created May 17, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (9) | comments 9

Let there be light: Camera hooked up for Hubble

(AP) -- A pair of spacewalking astronauts overpowered a stubborn bolt and successfully installed a new piano-sized camera in the Hubble Space Telescope on Thursday, the first step to making the observatory ...

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created May 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 7

Servicing Mission 4 -- the fifth and final visit to Hubble

(PhysOrg.com) -- The combination of Hubble's powerful suite of instruments and its position far above the effects of Earth's atmosphere has consistently produced outstanding scientific results for nineteen ...

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created May 01, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 2

Space station's new solar wings open easily (Update 2)

(AP) -- Astronauts successfully unfurled the newly installed solar wings at the international space station Friday, a nerve-racking procedure that went exceedingly well and brought the orbiting outpost to ...

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created Mar 20, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Robot assembles truss structures autonomously

(PhysOrg.com) -- Like something straight out of "Star Wars," armies of robots could nimbly be crawling up towers and skyscrapers to make repairs in the not-so-distant future, so humans don't have to.

Electronics / Robotics

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 37 | with audio podcast

Spacewalking astronauts move crane, skip shields

Two spacewalking astronauts moved a construction crane outside the International Space Station on Thursday, a cumbersome job that took so long they scrapped hanging shields to protect against space junk. ...

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created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Moscow's Mars volunteers to 'land' after 520 days

Six volunteers Friday will emerge blinking into the outside world after spending almost one-and-a-half-years in isolation at a Russian research centre to test the effects on humans of a flight to Mars.

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created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 6

Last spacewalk of US shuttle era ends (Update 2)

Two US astronauts wrapped up the last spacewalk of the shuttle era Tuesday at the International Space Station, where Atlantis is docked on the final mission of the 30-year US program.

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created Jul 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2

China's space program shoots for moon, Mars, Venus

This year, a rocket will carry a boxcar-sized module into orbit, the first building block for a Chinese space station. Around 2013, China plans to launch a lunar probe that will set a rover loose on the moon. ...

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created Jul 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 22

Debris may be on collision course with space lab: NASA

NASA is tracking a piece of Soviet space debris that could collide with the International Space Station, the US space agency said Sunday after the shuttle Atlantis docked on its final mission.

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created Jul 11, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 5

Astronauts pack up on next-to-last shuttle flight

Endeavour's astronauts took care of some last-minute space station chores Saturday before packing up to come home and end the next-to-last shuttle flight.

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created May 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Last shuttle spacewalkers make history above Earth

NASA completed its part in the construction of the International Space Station on Friday, with the final spacewalkers in the 30-year shuttle program attaching an extension boom.

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created May 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Spacewalking astronauts encounter bolt trouble

A spacewalking astronaut ran into trouble Sunday while trying to lubricate a joint in the life-sustaining solar power system of the International Space Station, losing one bolt and getting a washer stuck in ...

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created May 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Glitch makes NASA cut short Endeavour spacewalk

NASA managers cut short a task on Friday's otherwise routine spacewalk by two Endeavour astronauts because one of their carbon dioxide sensors stopped working, but most of their work was already finished.

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created May 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0