Jules Verne -- the first of the European Space Agency's
Automated Transfer Vehicles (ATV), a new series of autonomous
spaceships designed to re-supply and re-boost the International
Space Station (ISS) -- was successfully launched into low Earth
orbit by an Ariane 5 vehicle Sunday morning.
10 Teams Registered For $30 Million Google Lunar X Prize
The X Prize Foundation and Google, Inc. has recently the first
10 teams to register for the Google Lunar X Prize, a robotic race
to the Moon to win $30 million in Prizes. This international group
of teams will compete to land a privately funded robotic craft on
the Moon that is capable of roaming the lunar surface for at least
500 meters and sending video, images and data back to the
Earth.
Space shuttle Endeavour’s STS-123 mission is officially
set for launch after getting the "go" from NASA's Mission
Management Team on Sunday, with all technical and meteorological
aspects in the green at this time.
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