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NASA astronauts will be spending time in a simulated lunar environment in the Arizona desert, to see what Artemis moon missions will face.

What have I been reading lately?  There is a new book about the problematic dimensions of robots, autonomous vehicles, and artificial intelligence that will be of interest to economists and technology developers as well as consumers: Good Robot, Bad Robot: Dark and Creepy Sides of Robots, Autonomous Vehicles, and AI.

/PRNewswire/ -- Media are invited to visit NASAs Desert Research and Technology Studies (Desert RATS) team members on Monday, Oct. 24, at the Black Point Lava...

Konza Technopolis Development Authority (KoTDA), has held a meeting with US-headquartered VMware, a leading innovator in enterprise

Space Center Houston plans to bring the moon and Mars to the public. The center debuted a new logo and revealed plans for lunar and Martian terrains.

Facts, in Latour’s view, don’t exist “out there,” waiting to be discovered or understood. They are the hard-won products of scientific work, the result of a long and often contentious process of collecting data, negotiating controversy, and translating the consensus into papers that are read, judged, and, if all goes smoothly, replicated by scores of other scientists.

As NASA eyes November as the next opportunity to launch its Artemis I mission to the moon from Kennedy Space Center in Florida – the first in a series of missions – NASA said it would conduct analog missions – simulated missions -- in Arizona to practice moonwalks, and to test the capabilities of its rovers.

As part of the Artemis mission, Nasa will conduct two multi-week field tests in the US near Flagstaff, Arizona. Meanwhile, Airbus engineers have been testing the Sample Fetch Rover (SFR) at a quarry in Milton Keynes, UK.

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As NASA eyes November as the next opportunity to launch its Artemis I mission to the moon from Kennedy Space Center in Florida – the first in a series of missions – NASA said it would conduct analog missions – simulated missions -- in Arizona to practice moonwalks, and to test the capabilities of its rovers.