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Floating radio-like smart robot assists astronauts aboard China’s space station
In the future, robots could actively assist astronauts onboard space stations to conduct complex tasks. Towards this, astronauts aboard China’s Tiangong space station have been conducting ...
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Floating blue-eyed robot keeps watch on the ISS: Space photo of the day
Looking like a soccer ball with glowing blue eyes, the Japanese Experiment Module Internal Ball Camera-2 is put to test aboard the International Space Station. What's black and white and can see ...
Worrying health update on astronauts who were stranded in space for nine months
Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were sent to the International Space Station last June before a bungled test flight left them ...
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Posh space bases of the future including floating 400-guest ‘orbital ring’ and Hilton’s Starlab with flying sky gym
LIVING in space is about to get a whole lot fancier as design companies race to get their futuristic bases floating around Earth. The International Space Station's days are numbered (with it due ...
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NASA astronauts step outside space station to perform 5th all-female spacewalk
Minutes before floating out, McClain noticed strands ... During their spacewalk, the pair will prepare the space station for another new set of solar panels and move an antenna on the 260-mile ...
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NASA astronaut plays 100-year-old Irish flute while floating in outer space
On the International Space Station, which orbits Earth around 16 times a day, Irish American astronaut and Expedition 27 Flight Engineer Catherine Coleman played a pair of Irish melodies on a 100-year ...