Aggressive Gaming
It is not uncommon for scientist and engineers to be gamers, but apparently NASA has taken a liking to Microsoft’s Kinect and plans on using the motion sensor peripheral for future human/robotic interface for operations in space.
The asteroid zoomed by Earth at a perfectly safe distance of around 1.8 million miles (2.9 kilometers).
Engineers expect to lose contact with the private US moon lander Odysseus on Tuesday, cutting short the mission after its sideways touchdown last week.
NASA announced Tuesday that a $32.7 million Capstone spacecraft intended to try out a skewed lunar orbit had lost contact, but agency engineers are confident
