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There is a certain sense of unreality as I sit this morning at the Kennedy Space Center press site, with Atlantis on the launch pad just over three miles away awaiting its last mission (STS 135), NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver finishing a briefing on NASA's ambitious plans for the future, a hundred enthusiastic young people from all over the country gathered for a "Tweetup" to communicate their impressions of being at a launch--while in Washington, D.C., the House Appropriations Committee apparently is intending today to cut almost $2 billion from NASA's budget. There is a remarkable disconnect between the excitement surrounding the last shuttle launch, set to lift-off Friday, and the pervasive and merited anxiety about NASA's future that is almost the first thing out of the mouths of any of the space veterans I have encountered in the past 24 hours. I commented to a reporter earlier today that the current level of uncertainty about the future of the NASA program is the greatest that I have seen in 45 years of close observation of the U.S.
Read More »This Week In Bots: Ship-Climbing Spies, Tiny Quadrocopters, Open-Source Androids, Teacher Bot, And NASA’s Robothespian
If you're into technology that can stroll convincingly like a human, or creep, roll, climb, spy, and even deliver drinks with uncanny mechanical smoothness, then you've come to the right place. In our second installment of This Week In Bots we share tiny flying drones, amazing magnetic climbing spy machines...and a friendly NASA thespian robot
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Read More »First Offshore Wind Farm In The U.S. Gets Approval After Decade Of Red Tape
After a decade of dealing with environmental and regulatory red tape, the first offshore wind farm in the U.S.
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