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Robotic surgeon to team up with doctors, astronauts on NASA mission
04-18-2007 · EurekAlert!Lightweight surgical robots being developed for the battlefield might also be used in space. The UW's surgical robot, Raven, will participate in NASA's mission to submerge a surgeon, astronaut and robotic gear. For 12 days in May the system will be put through its paces in an underwater capsule that mimics conditions in a space shuttle.
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- Discovery set for launch
12-07-2006 · European Space Agency (ESA)
Space Shuttle Discovery and her seven crewmembers are ready for launch tonight at 03:35 CET (02:35 UT). NASA is keeping a keen eye on the weather over the Cape as a cold front moves through the area. For now the countdown to launch continues.
The seven astronauts, including ESA astronaut Christer Fuglesang, are undergoing final preparations, including a final pre-launch medical exam. The crew is scheduled to suit up at 23:15 CET (22:15 UT), after which they will depart the crew quarters for the drive to the launch pad.
NASA TV will start live coverage from 23:30 CET (22:30 UT).
For more about the Celsius Mission, visit http://www.esa.int/celsius
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- ESA astronaut Christer Fuglesang gets ready for next Shuttle mission - Opening of media accreditation for NASA sites
10-23-2006 · European Space Agency (ESA)
ESA PR 39-2006. With NASA's launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on flight STS-116 scheduled for the night of Thursday 7 to Friday 8 December at 01:38 GMT (02:38 CET) at the earliest, ESA astronaut Christer Fuglesang of Sweden is set to become the first citizen of a Nordic country to fly to the International Space Station.
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- Discovery lands at KSC
12-22-2006 · European Space Agency (ESA)
Space Shuttle Discovery touched down at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at 23:32 CET (22:32 UT) this evening. The landing marks the end of ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter's long-duration stay in space, concluding the Astrolab Mission. Whilst the return of ESA astronaut Christer Fuglesang, brings an end to the 13-day Celsius Mission.
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- Let doctors fix the NHS
11-16-2006 · EurekAlert!
Clinician led management can fix the NHS, argues a senior doctor in this week's BMJ. He calls on the government to let clinicians and managers plan and run their services free from political control.Senior medical professionals are often branded as opponents of reform, writes David Flook, Consultant General Surgeon at the Royal Oldham Hospital. But most medical personnel support changes, they just oppose "the cynical, superficial reforms through which politicians have exploited the NHS."
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- NASA mission explores world's deepest sinkhole
05-14-2007 · EurekAlert!
A NASA-funded expedition, including researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, will begin searching for the submerged bottom of Mexico's El Zacatn sinkhole with a robotic submarine the week of May 14.
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- Deep Impact extended mission heads for comet Hartley 2
12-18-2007 · EurekAlert!
NASA has given a University of Maryland-led team of scientists the green light to fly the Deep Impact spacecraft to Comet Hartley 2 on a two-part extended mission known as EPOXI. The spacecraft will fly by Earth on New Year's Eve at the beginning of a more than two-and-a-half-year journey to Hartley 2.
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- Press conference with ESA astronauts after mission to the ISS
01-05-2007 · European Space Agency (ESA)
ESA PR 03-2007. On Thursday 18 January, a press conference will take place at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany to give media a chance to meet the ESA astronauts Thomas Reiter, of Germany, and Christer Fuglesang, of Sweden, after completion of their respective missions following the landing of Space Shuttle Discovery on 22 December.
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- NASA-funded robotic sub makes final dive to reach bottom of Earth's deepest sinkhole
05-15-2007 · EurekAlert!
Scientists from the University of Texas at Austin's Jackson School of Geosciences and other institutions begin the final leg of a five-year, NASA-funded mission to reach the bottom of Cenote Zacatn in Mexico, the world's deepest known sinkhole, hoping to learn about Zacatn's geology, geothermal vents and forms of life. Previous expeditions tested the robotic probe that makes the dive, DEPTHX, designed to explore for life in extreme regions on Earth and in outer space.
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- International group plans strategy for Mars sample return mission
12-19-2007 · European Space Agency (ESA)
ESA, NASA and an international team are developing plans and seeking recommendations to launch the first Mars mission to bring soil samples back to Earth. The ability to study soil from Mars here on Earth will contribute significantly to answering questions about the possibility of life on the Red Planet.
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- STS-120 crew in practice countdown
10-11-2007 · European Space Agency (ESA)
ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli and his fellow STS-120 crewmembers have taken part in a practice countdown at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, in Florida, ahead of their mission to the International Space Station due for launch later this month.
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