Space Shuttle Endeavour landed from its last mission at NASA\’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The STS-134 crew spent 16 days in space.
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The Lunabotics Mining Competition encourages the development of lunar excavation concepts. The competition is open to teams consisting of university students. Each team has to build a remote controlled or autonomous excavator that can collect and deposit a minimum of 10 kilograms of lunar simulant within 15 minutes. Two Canadian teams were among the competitors this year: Team Production from Laurentian University and McGill LunarEx Team from McGill University. Laurentian University\’s team won the competition this year. Go Canada!
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On May 20, 2011, a Proton-M/Breeze-M launch vehicle lifted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome. Proton-M carried to orbit an American satellite: Telstar-14P.
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Soyuz TMA-20 undocked from the International Space Station. Soyuz is carrying Dmitry Kondratyev, Cady Coleman, and Paolo Nespoli.
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The Soyuz TMA-20 hatch closes behind Commander Dmitry Kondratyev, anf Flight Engineers Cady Coleman and Paolo Nespoli.
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The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) is installed outside the International Space Station. AMS is a high-energy particle detector. AMS will detect electrons, positrons, protons, antiprotons, and nuclei in cosmic radiation.
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