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Breaking News	Wed, 27 Jul 2011

A set of six-axis welding robots. Fabrication as an industrial term refers to building metal structures by cutting, bending, and assembling.

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Deccan Herald
Race to build a robot more like us
By John Markoff, IHT Wednesday, July 27, 2011 --> | The robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks often begins speeches by reaching into his pocket, fiddling with some loose change, finding a quarter, pulling it... (photo: Creative Commons / Phasmatisnox)

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The Daily Telegraph Australia
Musicians such as Daniel Johns and Angus and Julia Stone interpret Nick Cave's The Ship Song for Sydney Opera House
| TAKE "The Ship Song", a classic Nick Cave composition, add some of our finest contemporary voices including Katie Noonan, Sarah Blasko, Paul Kelly, Neil Finn and Daniel Johns. | Join them ... (photo: Creative Commons / Chimp (Talk | contribs).)

Senior Airman Brandon Jones, with the 135th Airlift Group, walks on the wing of a C-130J transport plane after inspecting the propellors Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2005, at the Warfield Air National Guard Base in Middle River, Md. Under a proposal from the Pentagon, members of Maryland National Guard's 135th Airlift Group may be forced to move or leave the unit.

The Daily Telegraph
Pentagon to officially end ban on gays in military
Seven months after the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," the Pentagon is set to announce that it will officially end the ban on gays openly serving in the military. | Certain elected officials feared... (photo: AP / Matthew S. Gunby)
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This is a printable version of space shuttle Atlantis' orbiter tribute, or OV-104, which hangs in Firing Room 4 of the Launch Control Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The Telegraph India
Shuttle ends final voyage & era
July 21: The last space shuttle flight rolled to a stop just before 6am (local time) today, closing an era of the nation's space programme. | 'Mission complete, Houston,' said Captain Christopher J. F... (photo: NASA / NASA/Amy Lombardo)
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The Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off from Kennedy Space Center for the last time during NASA's final space shuttle mission.

London Evening Standard
Shuttle prepares for final landing
Space shuttle Atlantis is zooming back to Earth for the very last landing of America's 30-year shuttle programme. | Perfect weather awaits Atlantis and its four-person cr... (photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley)
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Atlantis reaches OPF-1 after landing. At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Atlantis enters Orbiter Processing Facility-1, where it will be processed for the unlikely event it is needed as a rescue spacecraft for the final shuttle flight, Endeavor's STS-143 mission.

Independent online
Shuttle doors closed for last flight
Cape Canaveral - The shuttle Atlantis astronauts closed their spaceship's cargo bay doors on Thursday, aiming to conclude the final US space shuttle mission with a predaw... (photo: NASA / NASA/Jack Pfaller)
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The Star
Hubble detects a tiny fourth moon around Pluto
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a tiny fourth moon orbiting the distant icy dwarf planet Pluto, NASA said on Wednesday. | The space tel... (photo: Public Domain / NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team STScI/AURA))
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Hong Kong Standard
A touch of Thames
With the first and second phases of Riverside Quarter proving to be popular, the third phase of this prestigious development adds another 121 striking apartments that boa... (photo: WN / Marzena Jazowska)
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In a photo provided by NASA, NASA's Ares I-X rocket is seen on launch pad 39b at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday, Oct. 26, 2009

The Daily Telegraph
Final landing of Nasa shuttle Atlantis: what next for space travel
With the return of Atlantis bringing down the curtain on Nasa's shuttle programme, The Telegraph takes a look at the next generation of spacecraft vying to take man back ... (photo: AP / AP Photo/NASA/BILL INGALLS)
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This image of the International Space Station was taken by Atlantis' STS-135 crew during a fly around as the shuttle departed the station on Tuesday, July 19, 2011.

The Guardian
Last space shuttle aims for Thursday landing
| MARCIA DUNN | AP Aerospace Writer= CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — On the eve of NASA's historic, wheel-stopping end to the shuttle program, the four astronauts making th... (photo: NASA)
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The crew of a Coast Guard Station Canaveral 45-foot Response Boat-Medium patrol off the coast of Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral prior to the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis, Friday, July 8, 2011. The launch was the 135th and final launch of NASAs 30-year space shuttle program. Photo by Bryan S. Lilley. (1314046) ( Space Shuttle Atlantis )

Newstrack India
NASA's 30-yr-old space shuttle program to end tomorrow
| Washington, July 20 (ANI): Space shuttle Atlantis has undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) and is scheduled to make its final landing at the Kennedy Spac... (photo: US Coastguard / Bryan S. Lilley.)
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NASA

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Space Shuttle

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Artist's concept of the Dawn Mission spacecraft with Vesta (left) and Ceres (right)

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Eclipse

SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence)

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Universe

Comets, Meteors, and Asteroids

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	Earth shares orbit with tiny asteroid
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Vesta is seen from San Francisco on June 14, 2007. Its size and unusually bright surface make Vesta the brightest asteroid, and it is occasionally visible to the naked eye from dark skies (without light pollution).

NASA releases 1st close-up snaps of giant asteroid Vesta

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