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MSU Robot Digs Most Moon DirtBozeman MT (SPX) May 31, 2010 A Montana State University student-built robot won a national contest at the Kennedy Space Center Friday by digging the most simulated moon dirt in 15 minutes. Defeating robots from 21 other colleges and universities, Montana MULE removed 21.6 kilograms of regolith from a giant sandbox. That was far above the 10 kilograms required to qualify in the contest and far ahead of the nearest competitor in NASA's first Lunar Regolith Excavator Student Competition. A robot from Auburn University dug ... read more |
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LRO Team Helps Track Laser Signals To Russian Rover Mirror
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 27, 2010Using information provided by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) instrument teams, researchers at the University of California San Diego have successfully pinpointed the location of a long lost light reflector left on the lunar surface by bouncing laser signals from Earth to the Russian Lunokhod 1 retroreflector. The initial imaging of the two Russian rovers, Lunokhod 1 and 2 were m ... more Cassini Measures Tug Of Enceladus
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 27, 2010NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be gliding low over Saturn's moon Enceladus for a gravity experiment designed to probe the moon's interior composition. The flyby, which will take Cassini through the water-rich plume flaring out from Enceladus's south polar region, will occur on April 27 Pacific time and April 28 UTC. At closest approach, Cassini will be flying about 100 kilometers (60 miles ... more Cassini Saturnalia
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Apr 27, 2010In the latest outing for the Star Trek movie franchise, the young James T Kirk races the newly commissioned USS Enterprise at maximum warp speed back to the solar system. Kirk must rescue the Earth from the ravages of the driller killer machine that the maverick Romulan Nero has already used to destroy the planet Vulcan. Ensign Chekhov suggests that they hide the Enterprise within the Satu ... more |
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Apollo 13 - NASA's Successful FailureSchriever AFB CO (SPX) Apr 21, 2010 April marks the 40th Anniversary of the failed Apollo 13 mission and the near loss of its astronauts, James Lovell, John "Jack" Swigert, and Fred Haise. Apollo 13 was NASA's third moon shot, following the Apollo 11 lunar landing on July 20, 1969, which was repeated by Apollo 12 on Nov. 19, 1969. The mission, however, was plagued by challenges. Three days before the April 11, 1970 launch, crew member and command module pilot Thomas K. "Ken" Mattingly was removed from the mission. He had been expose ... read more |
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