Elizabeth Howell

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• Posted Meet Canada's Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator or Dextre for Short to SpaceRef Canada

  Call it an orbiting Edward Scissorhands. Although Dextre's first major robotic work on the International Space Station this month was delayed due to a snagged truss, both the Canadian Space Agency and NASA anticipate it will replace spacewalkers for minor...

• Posted Smooth Launch for Space Shuttle Discovery to SpaceRef Canada

  You know it's a quiet mission when the journalists are more focused on milestones than the missile just launched. An hour after the near-flawless dawn flight to space by shuttle Discovery on April 5, the reporters on site talked about...

• Posted Living in Space Exhibit Coming to a City Near You to SpaceRef Canada

  The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) aims to troubadour through venues across the country, spreading information about what it is like to live on the International Space Station, courtesy of a $1.25-million solicitation it awarded to Expographiq (aka Crecan International Ltd.)...

• Posted NASA Hosts STS-129 Launch Tweetup to SpaceRef Canada

  Space journalist Elizabeth Howell was among the 100 attendees at the first NASA launch tweetup at the Kennedy Space Center, Nov. 16, 2009. With a golden flash, space shuttle Atlantis punched through the first cloud hanging between the pad and...

• Posted Rover Technologies Outlined in Canadian Space Agency Contracts to SpaceRef Canada

  A lunar or Martian rover appears to be among the priorities that will eventually be outlined in Canada's Long-Term Space Plan, a planning tool the Canadian Space Agency says it has been working to complete during the past year. That...