With two machines going to for checking back and forth
the mining robotic is finally doing each thing we want.
Not only can it go to the LONG way but it can repeat
so it can go through a maze.
Getting ready for February at the LEGO City.
The ISS and Alvin have a phone call.
NASA AND WOODS HOLE LINKUP CONNECTS SPACE AND SEA EXPLORERS
Two extreme explorers had a unique call Friday, Jan. 26, linking the
depths of the ocean with
the heights of Earth orbit. NASA and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
Mass., hosted the
ultra-long distance call between International Space Station
astronaut Sunita "Suni" Williams and
marine biologist Tim Shank in the Alvin research submersible.
Williams, orbiting 220 miles overhead, and Shank, conducting
research two miles undersea in the Alvin submersible,
compared notes on science and exploration.
Williams was a member of a NASA crew in 2002 that lived underwater
for nine days in the Aquarius habitat off the Florida coast.
She boarded the space station on Dec. 11, 2006, as a flight engineer
for the Expedition 14 crew,
joining Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria and fellow Flight Engineer
Mikhail Tyurin.
Williams will spend six months on the complex.
Shank, a marine biologist in the Woods Hole's Department of Biology,
is currently conducting research diving in the Alvin at the hydrothermal
vent field on the East Pacific Rise.
He is leading a National Science Foundation-funded research expedition
as part of the RIDGE2000 program.
Alvin is operated by Woods Hole as a part of the National Deep Submergence
Facility
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
http://www.nasa.gov/station
With support from NASA West Virginia Space Grant Consortium. and
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