But AMS principal investigator Professor Sam Ting told BBC News his space experiment would explore domains beyond the reach of ground technology.
NASA, and the European Space Agency are collaborating on plans for an experiment in space in which the contraptions that would be used instead of mirrors would be 5m kilometres apart.
Humble it was, but it gave Walsh the space in which to experiment with unconventional formations and plays.
To my left was a gal working with the European Space Agency on an experiment to be flown on Atlantis.
Its scheduled departure date is March 25, and it will splash down in the Pacific with a payload of 2, 300 pounds of equipment and experiment samples from the Space Station.
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The experiment travelled to the International Space Station on a Soyuz in October of 2011.
Earlier this year the team launched another experiment to the edge of space.
In the tablet space it has been more willing to experiment, and has had great success with its smaller, and lower priced iPad Mini.
At the Newspace conference he showed some even more compact satellite platforms including an idea of matchbook sized satellites called moonbeams which could be launched for far less than conventional satellites and allow almost anybody to design and send an experiment or other package into space.
Execs at Panasonic and CBS Sports think their experiment with tennis, with its smaller space and tighter, lower shots, will work better.
Failing to raise any significant research support, Svensmark managed to conduct a boot-strap-funded experiment in 2007 at the Danish National Space Center that yielded convincing validation.
The details do not matter, except to say that this is precisely the sort of experiment that might be carried out in space, in order to eliminate the distorting effects of gravity.
This alternate camera will also show the satellite's telemetry rolling across the screen for another App, and there is a simple experiment also to sense the magnetic environment in space using the Nexus' own onboard magnetometer.
Tentative discussions have now begun between the partners on the International Space Station (ISS) about the possibility of doing some sort of isolation experiment in orbit.
The programs in question are the Clementine II asteroid intercept experiment, the Army's Kinetic Kill Anti-Satellite Weapon and the Military Space Plane.
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"Video conferencing does not give participants the physical sensation of being in the same shared space, and certainly not the physical capability to actually carry out actions in that space, " said Prof Mandayam Srinivasan from UCL who was part of the research team behind the experiment.
Beyond Higgs the ATLAS experiment will now be looking for evidence of dark matter in the universe and extra dimensions of space.
In July 2011, AMS operations moved back to CERN, where the AMS team continues monitoring and controlling the experiment 24 hours a day, with the capability to gather data for as long as the space station is in orbit.
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An experiment by University of Exeter researchers found that workers who were allowed to "enrich" their work space with their own choice of plants and pictures worked faster and with more accuracy.
And, for those space-cadets who still dream of a manned mission to the planet, there is also the Mars radiation environment experiment.
During the STS-134 mission, and for the first several months afterward, about 40 members of the AMS team monitored the experiment and analyzed the data it sent down from the Payload Operations Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
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