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Time to Rethink Manned Space Travel?

obonaut2 also is in training at the Johnson Space Center's astronaut training facility. Robonaut2 is a highly dexterous humanoid robot.

  Is it time to rethink manned space travel? Dr. writes Dr. Kenneth Hicks, Ohio University Professor of Physics,  in his May 25 Columbus Dispatch column. “Transporting astronauts to the International Space Station has always been a problem,” Hicks writes. “Now, in response to recent economic sanctions from the United […]

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June 13, 2014 at 1:39 pmFaculty in the News In the News News

NASA Announces Wyatt Flight Experiment on International Space Station

NASA Announces Wyatt Flight Experiment on International Space Station

Among the 31 space biology research proposals NASA announced on May 29 for immediate implementation is an experiment with Arabidopsis seedlings by Dr. Sarah Wyatt, Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology at Ohio University NASA will fund the “Research Opportunities in Space Biology” proposals to help investigate questions about how […]

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May 29, 2014 at 10:05 amNews