The first module works with basic vocabulary, required for the understanding of simple questions and elaboration of small sentences and dialogues.
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On the other side of the world, China, the third country to put a human into orbit on its own rockets, will be launching Tiangong 1, the first module of its own space station, as soon as September.
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The first Zarya module of the station is set for launch on November 20.
The astronauts are aiming to complete China's first manned docking with the Tiangong-1 module already in orbit, an important first step towards China's aim of creating a working space station by 2020.
This will be the first spacecraft of its kind since the Apollo command module.
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From the seemingly insurmountable problems of getting each stage of the Saturn V to work, to the challenges of making the Command Module safe following the fire that killed the first Apollo astronauts, even the engineers would have told you at times that they didn't think it could be done.
The first HyperX high-performance memory module was released in November 2002.
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This successful docking of the Tiangong-1 was merely the first step toward habitation: the Shenzhou 9 crew have boarded the module and will be living on board for thirteen days.
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Earlier Thursday, new Alpha commander Frank Culbertson and Russian flight engineers Vladimir Dezhurov and Mikhail Tyurin beamed down a message marking the one-thousandth day in space for the first component of the space station, the Russian-built Zarya module.
We've been eager to see a flood of Bluetooth keyboard peripherals for the iPad and iPhone ever since iOS 3.2 brought support to the platform, but unfortunately it looks like the first wave of iPad cases will all feature the same rubbery keyboard module.
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The solar industry relies on Government subsidies to compete with conventional sources of power such as coal and natural gas fired plants and decline in support can significantly impact the business of module manufacturers such as First Solar so we will keep an eye on these areas as well.
If the project is approved, engineers would hope to have the propulsion unit, or service module, ready to fly on the American rocket's first test flight.
The firm made the Eagle module that carried Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the lunar surface for the first manned moon landing in 1969.
Now it appears it's safely installed inside the Destiny module on the ISS and has captured its first ever image, seen above, a few weeks ago on February 16th.
He goes into the politics and jockeying, from Mr Aldrin's vociferous campaign to be first, to Mr Armstrong's pulling rank (as commander of the module, he was higher in the NASA hierarchy).
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